UFOs have been reported all over the Far East, and some have even been photographed. On October 10, 1975, Osamu Tsugaane snapped a picture of a golden shape that looked like a deep inverted pudding bowl over an air base at Hya Kuri. On March 7, 1973, Akiteru Takao spotted a silver globe over a suburb of Bangkok, Thailand, while on holiday there, and captured it with his camera. And on July 9 of the same year, police sergeant Yoshiyuki Matsuda took photographs of a traffic-accident scene on a corner in Nagai City - and revealed an oblong, egg-like glowing object in the sky which defied explanation by experts who studied it. Hideichi Amano had no chance to take a picture of the frightening alien he met near Sayama City on October 3, 1978. Amano, a radio ham, had driven to a hilltop near the city to transmit messages without interference, leaving his two-year-old son asleep in the back seat. But when he returned to the vehicle, he found the boy bathed in an eerie light and foaming at the mouth.
He tried to start the car, but nothing happened. Then he felt a metallic object being pressed against his forehead, and looked round to see a creature with a round face, large pointed ears, big round blue eyes and no neck. The object touching Amano's head was some kind of tube from the being's mouth.
For five minutes, strange space messages were passed telepathically through the tube into the man's mind; later he repeated them under hypnosis. Then the alien simply vanished, and everything Amano had switched on in his panic - car ignition, lights, radio - burst into life.
