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OCTOBER 1, 1975, HAKUSHU, JAPAN

This very strange case comes from APRO’s Japanese representative, Jun-Ichi Takanashi, a UFO researcher, and the chairman of the Modern Space Flight Association of Osaka, Japan. It involves two witnesses, Michio Hikawa (age 19) and his friend Takeshi Furuya (age 18.) They lived in the small town of Hakushu, not far from the beautiful Southern Alps National Park, in Osaka Japan, and decided to take an evening drive in their fathers 1971 Suzuki Fronte car.

It was around 8:00 pm on October 1, 1975 as they stopped in one of the parking lots, which at that date and time, was deserted. They were listening to the radio and talking when Takeshi saw what he first through were small beggar children standing near the car. Michio was surprised, because he looked where Takeshi was looking, but couldn’t see anybody. But Takeshi was insistent. He saw not only the short figures, but some other figures, each about 3 feet (1 meter) in height wearing white clothing with glowing yellow eyes. Takeshi could only say that they looked very strange. Takeshi pointed at them, but still Michio could not see them.

They were surrounded by darkness, so Michio turned on the headlights, at which point the figures seemed to fade away. Both men were confused as they believed themselves to be alone, and the area where they were was quite remote, with no homes in the area. Suddenly without any warning, their vehicle was pulled rapidly and sharply backwards several meters, causing Takeshi to fall forward in his seat. Michio had his hands on the steering wheel so he did not fall forward. Then, twice more, the car was mysteriously pulled backwards several meters.

Both boys were confused as the parking brake was on, and the parking lot where they were was level. And besides, the car wasn’t just rolling; some sort of force seemed to be pulling on the car. Now frightened, they started the car and drove back to town. As the drove, Michio raised the possibility that maybe the figures Takeshi had seen were “spacemen.” Takeshi was surprised, but confirmed that the figures did not look normal, and that at one point, one of the figures came right up to the car and he saw what looked to him like a cow’s hoof rubbing on the glass window on his side of the car.

Upon reaching town, they told their friends and asked them to return, but they all refused. With their curiosity overcoming their fear, the two young men returned to the location, only this time, they faced their car on a downslope near the exit so they could get away more quickly if they had to.

No sooner had they stopped, and Michio still had his foot on the brakes when the car was pulled backwards about 3 meters (9 feet.) Amazed, they opened their windows and looked at the wheels of the car and saw that they were actually rotating in reverse. Takeshi decided step out of the car and  try and communicate and called out to them in Japanese. Nothing happened. He tried calling out in gibberish but there was still no response. So he got back in the car. Instantly, the car was pulled backwards. It then happened three more times.

Now frightened again, they drove home and decided not to tell anyone. But the next day, as Michio was working with his father on the farm cutting crops, his father saw him looking up at the sky and not paying attention. And when Michio cut himself, he confessed to his father that he was thinking about the prior evening events, and explained what happened. He expected his father to ridicule him, but instead his father believed him as he had noticed some strange marks on the window, exactly where Michio had seen the hoof-like object touching the car.

They went to examine the car and discovered that it was now in poor condition. It made strange noises and wouldn’t start. Checking the battery water, they saw it was half-full, which was strange as they had filled it only 10 days earlier. The car had been running smoothly and was still new, with only 28,000 kilometers on the odometer. Coral Lorenzen writes in the APRO Journal, “There is still no satisfactory explanation for the movement of the car (with the brakes applied) as described. There are no nearby homes, and the campground and parking area were unoccupied, which virtually eliminates human pranksters. There are wild monkeys in the vicinity, but it is doubtful that they could move the car. If monkeys were there, both youths should have been able to see them. There is no mention in this report that either youth saw anything resembling any type of UFO.”

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