![]() ![]() ![]() Mishima Yukio (left) at an observation event in Hibiya, Tokyo, in June 1957. Arai wrote in an article that Mishima was an enthusiastic member of the association and always showed up to events with a huge telescope. ![]() In June 1957, Mishima took part in an observation event in Hibiya, Tokyo, and later that summer he searched for UFOs during a trip to the United States. ![]() Others included the writers Hoshi Shin’ichi, Ishihara Shintarō, and Nitta Jirō the rocketry pioneer Itokawa Hideo and the composer Mayuzumi Toshirō. The JFSA had more than 1,000 members at one point, and Mishima was not its only famous face. Mishima, who yearned to see an alien spaceship, joined the organization the year after it was founded in 1955 by Arai Kin’ichi, a UFO trailblazer in Japan. This is the opening of an essay that author Mishima Yukio wrote in 1957 for Uchūki (Spacecraft), the official publication of the Japan Flying Saucer Research Association (JFSA). Yet in the end, I was not fortunate enough to witness such an event.” Last summer, I took my binoculars to Atami Hotel and watched the skies every single night in the hope of seeing so-called UFOs coming in to land. “Summer, the season of flying saucers, is almost here. ![]()
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