Ah, my invitation to Scientific Exploration (of UFOs?)

A 1972 UFO encounter, revitalized by Mysterious Universe in 2011.

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Dr Dee offered, in a comment elsewhere here, a link to a Rob Morphy Mysterious Universe story from July 5, 2011 about a smattering of strange UFO episodes with teenagers in the Kera area of Kōchi City, Japan:

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/07/the-bizarre-case-of-the-kera-ufo-encounters/

This is a photo of one of the young boys, holding the miniature UFO noted in the story, that he and his buddies “played with" over a short period of time.

(There are other photos of the UFO in the rather thorough Morphy report.)

Dr Dee sees the encounter as interesting and perhaps likes the idea that the object in play came through an inter-dimensionable glitch, which is one of the speculations in the Morphy posting.

This is a UFO tale that didn’t get much play here in the States but in Japan it came to light when a comic book [UFO Comics] presented the account in 2004, which led to a kind of investigation in 2007.

Again, what can we make of such an account? It could be an elaborate, intriguing hoax, as noted in the story, or a bona fide UFO encounter of a unique kind.

Because of the photos, we have to rule out a delusional folie a cinq.

And another, somewhat similar account in a different Japanese prefecture four years later, adds substance to the 1972 episode(s).

At any rate, such UFO tales are sloughed off by ufologists and enthusiasts but they provide grist to whatever UFOs are: intrusions from elsewhere or concoctions of creative, imaginative minds, young and old alike.

Any input would be appreciated.

RR

An Earth civilization before the current one?

https://www.space.com/40403-intelligent-life-on-earth-before-humans.html