Section F · Experiencers · abductees, contactees and entity witnesses

Katsuhiro Yamahata

Schoolchild from Kōfu, Yamanashi prefecture · second witness in the 1975 incident

Biography

He was skating with Masato Kawano the evening both said they saw an orange object descend over a vineyard and a short, wrinkle-faced occupant emerge from it. His testimony, taken alongside his companion's, is what prevents classifying the episode as the individual fantasy of a seven-year-old; the versions matched on the central elements. The case became a classic of Japanese ufology and reached the national press, which amplified some of the occupant's features —the supposed 'fangs'— beyond what the children described.

Why they're here · 1 pieces

  1. 1975

    Joint account with Masato Kawano

    The second testimony that lifts the case out of individual fantasy

Sources

  • Expediente del incidente de Kōfu · ufología japonesa — Documentation of the joint testimony.

Form they described (1)

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Associated cases (1)

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Kōfu Incident · occupant encounter and physical traces (Japan, 1975)· 1975

On February 23, 1975, two schoolboys from Kōfu (Yamanashi prefecture, Japan), Masato Kawano and Katsuhiro Yamahata, said they saw two orange objects descend, one of which landed in a vineyard; from it a short occupant allegedly emerged and touched one boy on the shoulder, leaving him momentarily paralyzed. The case is unusual among ground sightings for its corroboration: besides the boys, it was reported by their mothers, a classmate, a janitor and a woman driving by, and two concrete posts were left toppled at the site, which school staff concluded the children could not have knocked over; a teacher measured anomalous radioactivity in the soil with a Geiger counter. The official explanation —the Civil Aviation Bureau attributed it to the lights of a YS-11 aircraft— covers the aerial lights but not the landing or the occupant. A classic Japanese case, told with its counter-explanation.

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Synthesized bio from the UAP disclosure ecosystem — categorized by epistemological section (A-F).