UFO Case Directory: “Category 11, SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT – Disc Hovers Near Japanese Airport – Oct. 17, 1976 – Akita Airport, Japan”

(NICAP.org)

A brilliant golden, disk shaped UFO hovered south of Akita Airport (Akita, the capital city of Akita Prefecture) for five minutes starting at 10:40 a.m., Richard H. Hall reports:

http://www.nicap.org/761017japan_dir.htm

Quote from the UFO case report:

“The object was observed by control tower personnel and an airline pilot taxiing to take off. Kenichi Waga, telecommunications officer in the control tower, said: ‘It was disc-shaped, larger than a car, but smaller than an airplane.’ ”

Satellite photo of Akita, Japan

(tageo.com photo)