Five discs and a silver cigar craft above the trees, then a visitor appears – Sapporo, Japan, 1977
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Been looking at the Sapporo case from 1977. Starts as a sighting of a big craft and then turns into contact with actual beings.
On 7 June around 3pm a twenty-year-old (N / Nakano) was waiting for a UFO programme. He hears rustling, goes outside, and says he sees a huge silver-white cigar-shaped object hovering right at the tops of the trees by his house (trees about 20m high). It had eight round windows along the side, three of them smaller, and a bluish-white glow. It was rotating while moving slowly left. His friend K drew it. Then five discs came out silently from both sides and flew off. The cigar tilted and climbed into the cloud. Kids were looking up underneath it. Later he said branches were torn off.
He’d already reported other craft: a cigar over Mount Eniwa in 1975 and a triangle near his house in 1976 that supposedly followed a Self-Defense Forces helicopter.
On 18 June in a café a metallic voice in his ear introduced itself as Philcon from Mars and promised a sighting around an observing event on the 24th. He later said he saw a man disappear near Kita-24-jō station and identified him as Ramyū. From his description K drew a human-looking visitor with long hair, a suit and a tie. The facial portrait is dated 9 October 1977. Ramyū supposedly gave him a round metal object that glowed orange then turned ordinary silver. There’s a photo of the ring next to a cigarette pack. The specific gravity numbers jumped around (December said about 4.5, January corrected to 2.58, later 2.67 close to aluminium).
After that the contacts get more detailed. On 4 August around 3pm Ramyū came to his room after a phone call, borrowed paper and a ballpoint pen, drew the interior of a craft and explained its systems, then left by the door and went downstairs. N said he added the writing to one drawing himself. The pen was left twisted. The cabin drawing shows screens for the past and future, an aura display, extrasensory controls, a laser weapon and a protective force field.
On 16 August at 00:30 he boarded a new craft about 10m long, cream-coloured, on four legs with steps at the hatch. Inside was a rounded cabin with panels and screens and several figures. K drew a moss-green tentacled figure called Kim, two metres tall, floating above the floor (sketch says about 10cm, the text says 10 metres). The published account places Ramyū and two other beings aboard. Some drawings said Jupiter, captions changed it to Mars. He looked out at Sapporo’s lights and landscape, came back after a few minutes, descended the steps and said goodbye. A friend later reported flattened grass at the site, but nothing was properly checked.
There were also café meetings with Ramyū over lemon drinks. The visitor warned that harmful human thoughts threatened the solar system. Rescue was linked to developing psychic abilities and changing human behaviour. Later claims included an encounter on 10 October with a woman considered extraterrestrial, and a passing meeting with Ramyū at Ōdōri station the next day.
The Oumiya archive has the sixteen images (drawings of the craft, the visitors, the bases) from UFO to Uchū issues 29–31 and a 1978 book. They show a lot of the craft interiors, the figures, and the journeys N described. What they don’t give is anyone else confirming the beings, the origin of the ring, or that the trips actually happened. No hoax confession either