Masato Kawano

Biography

He was about seven and skating with a friend when both said they saw two orange objects, one of which landed in a vineyard behind the housing complex. They described a short occupant with a dark, wrinkled face that approached and touched one of them on the shoulder, leaving him frozen with fear. It is a close encounter with an occupant (CE3), an uncommon kind of case in Asia, where lights and institutional cases predominate. As with all child testimony, its strength and its weakness are the same: there is no cultural sophistication behind it, and no precision either.