Museum Insights from John Stepowski/Australia
From: John Stepkowski {legion@werple.net.au}
Subject: Re: Truth about UFO Museum?
To: iufo@alterzone.com
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 08:01:23 +1000 (EST)
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Hi Joyce...
* Joyce L. Murphy , writes:
> Beyond Boundaries just received a message today from a very prominent
> well known UFO Researcher in Japan (think at this time I should not
> reveal his name). I would like to quote a few statements from his
> letter to us.
[...]
> There was never any interest on the part of the Japanese government
> in the museum and in getting UFO information out to the world that
> governments everywhere have been keeping from the populace.
[...]
> Then there was an announcement included in the FAX that due to
> diplomatic and bureaucratic situations at the museum the conference
> scheduled at the facility for late July had also been cancelled. This
> surprising information came to us following our reading the press
> coverage the day before of the agreeing upon and signing, finally, the
> U.S. Japanese Trade Agreement.
Why would this trade agreement have anything to do with the museum
opening allegedly being cancelled? The agreement was hardly favourable
towards Japan - it forced them to end their policy of imposing import
quotas on U.S. products - so where's the connection?
> When we visited the unfinished museum last March the director of the
> museum - not mentioning names here either
May I mention a name, Johsen Takano?
> - was bubbling over with excitement about the massive amount of UFO
> information the museum was going to offer the public for the first time
> ever in the world! This was the project of his lifetime
The project of _his_ lifetime, and not an official Japanese government
program to educate the world about UFOs?
> The mystery is - just what did happen? Where is this information now
> if it is not in the museum and what happened to the promises of
> revealing these secrets that governments have been keeping
> from us?
Since you have access to Johsen Takano, may I suggest you direct this
question to him? Mr Takano has made many contradictory claims about this
"UFO" museum over the years, and much of the world's confusion over the
facility is due entirely to him. For example...
When crop circle enthusiast Colin Andrews first promoted Takano to the
world three years ago via his lectures and CPR Newsletters, he wrote,
(CPR Newsletter - Fall '93):
"[Takano] explained that this was the beginning of a very
important government program following adoption of a new policy
to educate the Japanese people about the UFO phenomenon within
the next three years. ... This was the first I was aware of the
Japanese government's decision to reveal information about the
UFO and other related phenomena. I could not believe what I was
hearing, yet at a deeper level, I have expected similar
developments from the west in a similar time frame."
Here Takano, according to Andrews, was claiming to be part of an official
"Japanese" government plan to "educate" the Japanese people about the UFO
phenomenon. But, curiously, when Takano was interviewed by UPI in
January, '94 for a news story in which this UFO museum was stated to be
entirely a Hakui City project, he said:
"We are not seeking to offer any conclusions on the existence of
UFOs," Takano said. "Rather, we just want to provide people with
information so that they can make their own judgment."
Strange. If the Japanese government wanted to educate its citizens about
UFOs and, as Bob Dean claimed, was going to display dead ETs and UFO
crash debris, they would very definitely be offering conclusions on the
existance of UFOs.
Stranger still is that when plans for the Hakui Space museum were first
announced in 1989 by the Mayor of Hakui city, Kazuo Shiotani, he had no
doubts about the aim and purpose of including UFOs in such a museum.
Antonio Huneeus, writing in the spring 1993 _UFO UNIVERSE_, pp 44-45,
stated:
"The Japan Times" quoted Mayor Kazuo Shiotani saying that "our idea is
that if we build a museum or a library devoted to UFOs, we will be
able to attract more conventions and tourists. We want Hakui to be a
town that everyone in Japan knows."
So this "UFO" museum was entirely the idea of the small textile town
of Hakui, and its purpose was "to attract more conventions and tourists."
This fact would have been confirmed to anyone who'd bothered to contact
their nearest Japanese embassy. I did and was told that there was no
official Japanese government interest in UFOs, and there were no plans to
"educate" its citizens about UFOs.
The plans for the Hakui museum did show one small section which was
labelled "UFO", but this was a very small section indeed, and was
immediately next to an area labelled "SETI". But this small section was
"very" important, at least according to Mr Takano.
The many stories coming directly from and attributed to Mr Takano are
amazing, but none more than his incredible claim to have seen "official"
U.S. government pictures of dead Roswell ETs. Michael Hesemann claims
that Takano said he was:
flown with two others to the CIA HQ in Langley to view 5 hours of
material including the same autopsies. (as the ones shown in the
Santilli video.)
On June 29, 1995, Ray Santilli announced that:
Colin Andrews came to my office two days ago with a team of Chinese
officials. Last year as part of an exchange of information the CIA
had shown them their footage of Roswell. The four officials in my
room confirmed that my footage was from the same batch they saw...As
you would expect it was an exciting moment for us all."
It was later confirmed by Hesemann that these "Chinese" officials were in
fact Johsen Takano and a Prof. Chiang of a Taiwanese UFO group.
Mr Takano provided Chiang with some of the ET pictures he claimed he'd
received during his alleged high-level visit to the CIA, and Chiang
published them in a book. Unfortunately for Chiang, and anyone else who
took Takano's story seriously, the pictures that Takano produced were the
same rubber ETs from the Roswell museum display that were posted to the
Internet last year as "Chinese ETs", and recently appeared in 'Penthouse'.
Mr Takano has a lot of questions to answer. Joyce, perhaps you could
contact him and ask why he's been misleading so many people for so many
years over "his" so-called "UFO" museum? Why did he claim it was an
"official" Japanese government UFO education project when all along it was
a local Hakui City enterprise to attract tourists?
You might also ask him about his alleged visit to the CIA; why he claimed
that the rubber ETs on display at the Roswell International UFO Museum and
Research Centre were the same ones seen in the Santilli footage?; why did
he give Chiang pictures of those rubber Roswell ETs and claim he got them
from the CIA?; why has the Hakui town council become reluctant to promote
the "UFO" aspect of the Space museum? Has it anything to do with the
"UFO" exhibit he arranged in April of 1994 that comprised: "about 70
panels of photos, videos, and various UFO related materials"? According
to a review of this exhibition in the "Hokkoku Shimbun" newspaper, the
displays 'drew nothing but complaints such as "Is this all?" and "This was
disappointing!"'
If Mr Takano is able to provide some answers to these questions, perhaps
you could post them here for the benefit of all of us?
In the meantime, the only official Japanese agency that knows anything
about the Hakui "UFO" Museum is the Japan National Tourist Organization.
Perhaps those UFOlogical Paul Reveres - Colin Andrews, Bob Dean and Johsen
Takano - who have been pointing to the Hakui "UFO" Museum and shouting
"The UFO Uncover-up is coming! The UFO Uncover-up is coming!" would
care to explain why the delicate and important task of extra-terrestrial
diplomacy and education has been handed to the Japanese tourism authority?
Appended is a press release from the Japan National Tourist Organization
about the Hakui "space theme park and museum." Not a dead ET or crashed
UFO in sight.
Thanks,
John
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JAPAN
where the past greets the future
News from Japan National Tourist Organization
CONTACT PATRICK WILSON 0171 734 9638 31 July 1996
*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***
UFOs sited in Central Japan
'Cosmo Isle Hakui' Space Park now open
The Noto peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture is famed for its
wildlife, and the nearby city of Kanazawa is an important
historical and cultural site. Now the area boasts a new
attraction in the otherworldly form of a space theme park and
museum. Cosmo Isle Hakui, a three-storey exhibition complex in
the shape of a giant flying saucer.
Despite its alien appearance, the facility has a peaceful mission
- to educate visitors about human achievements in space science,
and promote a sense of wonder at the vastness and strangeness of
the universe. A special section is devoted to UFOs, with a
library of accumulated official documents relating to UFO
sightings.
Data File:
Floor area 6,470 sq.m Admission: (children half price)
Open Hours: 10:00-22:00 Exhibition Hall (2F) Y800
Holidays: Tues, 3rd Weds Planetarium (3F) Y700
Access: Hakui is 40 min by JR Express from Kanazawa.
Further details: Cosmo Isle Hakui Tel: (0081) 767 22 9888
Fax: (0081) 767 22 1947
JAPAN NATIONAL TOURIST ORGANIZATION
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From: John Stepkowski {legion@werple.net.au}
Subject: "Official Documents" At "UFO" Museum
To: iufo@alterzone.com
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 08:10:37 +1000 (EST)
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Hi All..
A July 31, 1996 press release from the Japan National Tourist Organization
provides information about the long-awaited and greatly misrepresented
'Cosmo Isle Hakui' Space (and UFO) museum.
The release informs us that:
A special section (of the Museum) is devoted to UFOs, with a
library of accumulated official documents relating to UFO
sightings.
A library of accumulated "official UFO documents" sounds impressive
enough, but what sort of "official" documents could they be? A clue to
their nature is contained in a Jan 7, 1994, UPI interview with one
Toru Wada and Johsen Takano, Hakui city employee and energetic promoter
of the so-called "UFO Museum."
>From the UPI newswire, Jan 7, 1994:
[...]
Researchers in Hakui, located on the Japan Sea coast 310 miles
west of Tokyo, already have spent 10 years acquiring documentation on
UFO sightings.
Hakui's library has more than 10,000 official documents relating
to UFO phenomena, Wada said.
Wada said among the information housed there are reports by both
the CIA and FBI -- including a 1950 FBI report on the recovery of the
bodies of three supposed alien beings and fragments of a mysterious
craft.
=====
A "1950 FBI report on the recovery of the bodies of three supposed alien
beings" sounds impressive enough, but is it worth going all the way to
Hakui city to view this document? Well, no, not when you can purchase
this same document from CAUS, your nearest UFO group, or view it for free
at one of the many Internet UFO archive sites. You see, this "official"
1950 FBI report that Messers Wada and Takano laboured for 10 years to
amass is just one of the many UFO-related documents released under the
FOIA in the past 20 years. The 1950 FBI report Wada referred to, better
known as the "Hottel memo", is neither new nor earth-shattering, and
hardly merits a trip all the way to Japan. Unless someone can come up
with a slick marketing campaign to get you there with promises of more
exciting UFO fare...
Appended are copies of the complete UPI newswire story, and a copy of the
Hottel memo. Read it, and save yourselves the cost of an expensive plane
trip to Japan. Unless you want to go for the sushi, and a ride on the
Bullet train.
Thanks,
John
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>Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94
TOKYO (UPI) -- Questions about the existence of alien beings from outer
space may find answers in a small city in western Japan that aims to
become the world information center on UFOs.
An official from Hakui said Friday the city has been looking
into the requisities for becoming a data base on mysteries of the
universe -- with particular emphasis on research on unidentified flying
objects.
''In the future, we hope the (Hakui) facilities will become the
focus of international attention in terms of collecting and
disseminating information on UFOs,'' said city official Toru Wada.
Researchers in Hakui, located on the Japan Sea coast 310 miles
west of Tokyo, already have spent 10 years acquiring documentation on
UFO sightings.
Hakui's library has more than 10,000 official documents relating
to UFO phenomena, Wada said.
Wada said among the information housed there are reports by both
the CIA and FBI -- including a 1950 FBI report on the recovery of the
bodies of three supposed alien beings and fragments of a mysterious
craft.
The city's facilities for extraterrestrial research include a hall
capable of holding international symposiums and exhibitions, a theme
park and a library.
Josef (sic) Takano, 38, who works for the Hakui municipality and
is a prime mover behind the UFO center, told the Kyodo News Service
documents were also obtained from countries such as Britain, France and
Canada.
``We are not seeking to offer any conclusions on the existence of
UFOs,'' Takano said. ``Rather, we just want to provide people with
information so that they can make their own judgment.''
Takano began studing extraterrestrial phenomena in his student
days and has a personal collection of thousands of books on UFOs.
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NOTE: THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT WAS OBTAINED THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS,
INCLUDING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA). THE DOCUMENT IS NOT A
HOAX. PARANET RATES THE DOCUMENT *ITSELF* S5/P5, MEANING THE DOCUMENT IS
COMPLETELY AUTHENTIC, AND THE CONTENT IS HIGHLY STRANGE. THERE IS NO WAY
OF EVALUATING THE RELIABILITY OF THE DOCUMENT'S CONTENT, AS IT CONTAINS
SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH HAND INFORMATION.
CITIZENS AGAINST UFO SECRECY (CAUS) IS OUR SOURCE FOR THE DOCUMENT.
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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: March 22, 1950
FROM: GUY HOTTEL, SAC, WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS
INFORMATION CONCERNING
The following information was furnished to SA [blanked] by
[ blanked ]
[blanked]
An investigator for the Air Forces stated that three so-called
flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were
described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approxi-
mately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies
of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth
of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar
to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.
According to Mr. [blanked] informant, the saucers were found in New
Mexico due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered
radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes
with the controling mechanism of the saucers.
No further evaluation was attempted by SA [blank] concerning the above.
RHK:VIM
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