SEASIDE TOWN TO BUILD CENTER FOR UFO STUDY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517787
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: January 7, 1994

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DOCN 000005894
CLAS UNCLAS 4A
SERI SERIAL: OW0701064894
COON COUNTRY: JAPAN
SUBJ*SUBJ: SEASIDE TOWN TO BUILD CENTER. FOR UFO STUDY
SOUR SOURCE: TOKYO KYODO IN ENGLISH 0538 GMT 7 JAN 94
TEXT TEXT:
((TEXT)) KANAZAWA, JAN. 7 KYODO -- A SMALL CITY ON THE JAPAN
SEA COAST IS AIMING TO BECOME'AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE STUDY
*OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO'S), A CITY OFFICIAL SAID FRIDAY.
HAKUI, IN ISHIKAWA PREFECTURE, IS ENGAGED IN AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT
*TO BUILD A CENTER ON UFO'S AND OTHER SPACE PHENOMENA OVER THE NEXT
.TWO YEARS.
THE CENTER'S MAIN ATTRACTION WILL BE A LIBRARY WHERE BOTH
SPECIALISTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC WILL BE ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS TO
*OVER 10,000 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO.UFO PHENOMENA.
INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED IN BOTH JAPANESE AND ENGLISH.
THE OFFICIAL, TORU WADA, SAID, "IN THE FUTURE, WE HOPE THE CENTER
WILL BECOME A FOCUS OF INTERNATINAL ATTENTION IN TERMS OF COLLECTING
*AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION ON UFO'S."
THE CITY HAS PAINSTAKINGLY ACQUIRED THE DOCUMENTS OVER A 10-YEAR
PERIOD FROM SUCH SOURCES AS THE U.S. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
(CIA)
AMONG THEM ARE A 1950 REPORT BY THE U.S. FEDERAL BUREAU OF
INVESTIGATION (FBI) ON THE RECOVERY OF THE BODIES?OF THREE ALIEN
BEINGS, SOME 90 CENTIMETERS IN HEIGHT, AND FRAGMENTS OF THEIR.
SPACECRAFT, ABOUT 15 METERS IN CIRCUMFERENCE, AFTER A CRASH-LANDING
NEAR THE MEXICAN BORDER.
* THE CENTER, TO BE BUILT TO RESEMBLE AN OVAL-SHAPED UFO, WILL-BE.
THREE STORIES HIGH AND HAVE A TOTAL FLOOR SPACE OF 6,200 SQUARE
METERS.
AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE CITY'S EFFORTS IS JOSEN TAKANO, 38, AN
EMPLOYEE OF THE MUNICIPAL OFFICES'S PLANNING SECTION, WHO HAS BEEN
*INVOLVED IN THE STUDY OF UFO'S SINCE HIS STUDENT DAYS.
* TAKANO, WHO HAS A COLLECTION OF THOUSANDS OF BOOKS ON UFO'S, HAS
ALSO GATHERED LARGE QUANTITIES OF DOCUMENTS FROM THE UNITED STATES
THROUGH THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, AS WELL AS FROM SUCH
COUNTRIES AS BRITAIN, FRANCE AND CANADA.
"WE DO NOT INTEND TO OFFER OUR OWN CONCLUSION ON THE EXISTENCE OF
*UFO'S," TAKANO SAID. "RATHER, WE JUST WANT TO PROVIDE PEOPLE WITH
INFORMATION SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE THEIR OWN JUDGMENT."
* HE IS WAITING FOR THE DAY WHEN THOSE WANTING TO LEARN ABOUT UFO'S
WILL GET ALL THE INFORMATION THEY NEED JUST BY VISITING HAKUI.
TAKANO SAID EFFORTS ARE UNDER WAY TO GATHER EVEN MORE INFORMATION
THROUGH A NETWORK OF ENTHUSIASTS IN 12 OTHER COUNTRIES.
(ENDALL). 070538 1. _050701.012 * 07/0647Z JAN
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