On 23 February 1975, two seven-year-old boys in Kofu, Japan reported a landed object and a small being. The case was investigated locally, and the object identity was never settled.
Kofu matters because it is a Japanese child-witness close-encounter case — a test of treating a young-witness account honestly, with the being unverified.
Two seven-year-old boys playing in Kofu reported two orange glowing objects, one of which landed in a nearby vineyard.
Documented
The boys’ report is documented.
The boys described a small being near the object. This is a child-witness account, reported and not independently established.
Documented
The reported being is documented as testimony.
The case was investigated locally (Kofu police reports and Kinichi Arikawa’s investigation). The object identity and the being remain disputed.
Debated
The object identity and the being are disputed.
The case rests on the accounts of two young witnesses and later retellings. No photograph is established.
Unverified
The being as an entity, and any extraterrestrial origin, are unverified.
These sources do different jobs: the police reports are the official record, and the Arikawa investigation is the research treatment. Neither establishes the being or the object identity.
The police record.
A local investigation, recorded as research.