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01x04 - Lights Over Fukushima

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Encounters". Aired: September 27, 2023.*
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Mass UFO sightings from the last 50 years fuel a global mystery in this docuseries featuring eyewitness accounts, expert interviews and new evidence.

01x04 - Lights Over Fukushima

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I am the high priest

of the Enmyoin Temple.

The 29th chief monk.

Many visitors have spotted UFOs

at this temple.

I've seen one here too.

It was a huge UFO.

It was hovering right above here.

And it was moving like

I was surprised by how big it was.

I was stunned.

Mm-hmm. But I saw it with my own eyes.

Mm-hmm. It was undeniably real.

I saw it before the earthquake,

so about 12 or 13 years ago.

Breaking news.

A large earthquake has just struck

off the east coast of Japan here.

A big quake,

magnitude 8.9. It struck at 2:46 p.m.

Sendai was the closest population.

That's the ocean over there.

There used to be lots of houses here,

but the ocean swelled up very high.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning

Center issued a tsunami warning for Japan,

Russia, Marcus Island,

the Northern Marianas

Waves are rushing through.

Devastated by the tsunami

was the port city of Sendai,

the closest city

People near the coast

should evacuate to higher ground.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Nuclear officials are warning

of a possible nuclear reactor meltdown.

We keep hearing

that the coolant system is not working.

A "China syndrome" meltdown

and radiation leaks are

The clock is ticking.

Every minute that passes,

we come closer to the time

when there could be a secondary

The UFOs

came after the expl*si*n.

There were so many of them.

I was shocked.

From the beginning of recorded time,

men have been seeing

unexplainable things in the sky.

Are we alone in the universe?

Somewhere in the data

will be something worth real inquiry.

We have not been hiding anything.

There are such things

as interplanetary spaceships.

I thought it was an alien,

and he had big eyes.

There's something

profoundly important going on here

that is authentic and real.

I came here on March 14th,

right after I heard

about the Fukushima nuclear accident

because I wanted to help my friend.

They lived further away, towards the sea.

But, still, I thought,

"I have to come and help them."

Unfortunately, my friend passed away.

However, I knew

I couldn't go back without helping,

even though I had lost my friend,

so I stayed here as a volunteer.

Many people lost their lives.

Many others ran away

and left everything behind.

I saw so much in those five years,

and I heard so many mysterious stories.

Many people had been swept away

by the tsunami,

so we'd come and search the beaches

to see if we could find anyone.

It was right after the disaster.

So, when you looked in this direction,

it was just a lot of debris,

and over there, there were

all kinds of things scattered around.

It was a tsunami after all.

It took people, houses,

anything it could reach.

One day, a group of us came here,

looked up and saw these ba*ls of light

out over the ocean.

They were these bluish-whitish

ba*ls of light,

off in the distance.

There were so many of them,

and they were all lined up in a row.

It was beautiful.

They were such beautiful lights.

Ishinomaki is a small town.

A simple port town.

Truthfully, I don't think

anyone ever imagined

it would be hit by a tsunami,

much less destroyed by one.

This is where my mom was born.

She actually became a teacher

and taught at the elementary school here.

She really loved the elementary school.

She talked about her students here

all the time.

The tsunami destroyed the school.

Everything has gone.

It wasn't long after

the nuclear disaster at Fukushima

that many people

began to see UFOs near the facility.

We didn't exactly know

what they were or what they were doing,

but there they were, in broad daylight,

and they were clearly

working on something.

I think

there is a very clear connection

between UAP activity

and nuclear power plants,

and I think

that this has gone back for decades.

My personal view, on the basis of over

30 years of very extensive research,

is that there is an advanced

extraterrestrial presence operating,

basically, here on Earth

and in the oceans.

And one of the biggest things

that we have to come to grips with

is the fact that this is happening.

Some of

the declassified US government reports

that go back decades are amazing.

And they're not the least bit ambiguous.

FBI documentation. CIA documentation.

It goes back to the 1930s,

to when the science and research

was being done to understand fission.

But then it really heats up in the 1940s,

in particular, right after the detonation

of the two atomic bombs in Japan in 1945.

Then it is decisive. It's conclusive.

You see one after another event occurring

in proximity, specifically,

to sites associated with nuclear weapons.

So, Los Alamos in the 1940s.

Sandia National Labs.

Kirtland Air Force Base

where nuclear weapons were stored.

Just boom, boom, boom. They are thorough.

They, like, don't miss anything.

If you look at a lot of the UAP displays,

as they are recounted by witnesses,

really credible witnesses,

there is a kind of signaling to us.

You know, in the Fukushima disaster,

there were many reports of UFO activity.

But not only in Fukushima.

In 1986, in Chernobyl,

when Unit 4 malfunctioned,

there was a lot of UFO activity

reported there also.

At the height of the fire in Chernobyl,

the reading was 3,000 milliroentgens,

which is a unit of ionizing radiation.

And right at the height of the fire,

many people observed a UFO come,

stayed for three minutes,

shone a light right at Unit 4, departed.

They took another reading,

and it had apparently dropped to 800.

Just in a few minutes.

That seems like a very conscious attempt

to remediate the danger

caused by the malfunction there.

When the plant exploded,

everybody began to panic.

Of course, I evacuated right away

with everyone else.

"We're going to be exposed," they said.

"Hurry!" So we did.

It was terrifying at first.

24 hours ago

was a town of 71,000 people,

now completely underwater.

No structure still standing.

But then I learned

that, miraculously,

the temple was untouched.

That's why it's called the Miracle Temple.

I don't know if it was some god

or some powerful being in a UFO,

but I believe that some invisible power

really did come to save us.

UFOs and aliens

and the whole question of outer space

were depicted in various ways

in Japanese popular culture,

and many anime and manga stories

take place in outer space.

You know, when people

ask me about Astro Boy,

like, "How could they create this hero

powered by atomic energy

so soon after the nation

was devastated by a nuclear b*mb?"

And then the other more important aspect

is that Astro Boy is half-boy, half-robot.

His father, the doctor, created Astro Boy

because his own son was k*lled.

So it doesn't take a very big leap to say,

"The father's family members

were k*lled in the w*r."

And so, "Let's use technology

to create something new

and give us a future."

So there was an enormous faith

in technology,

born out of trauma.

In a way, that was the

expression of the subconscious

of Japanese in the post-w*r period.

And what you see,

you know, starting with Astro Boy,

is these characters

that are half this, half that.

Ultraman's character

is so wonderful because

Ultraman is from a planet, another planet,

and he screws up

and has an accident,

and he crashes into a human ship,

which is piloted

by this Science Patrol guy.

And Ultraman decides, "I'm so ashamed

that I hit this guy's ship."

"I'm gonna merge with him."

So they merge together,

and that becomes Ultraman.

It's an alien merging with a human,

and, of course,

Ultraman embodies that notion

that some aliens are really good.

They're actually trying to protect people.

And as a kid, I loved that idea.

When I was seven years old,

I became fascinated with aliens.

I can't really tell you why,

but even when I really couldn't picture

what they looked like,

I could sense their warmth and kindness.

It was powerful.

They do exist.

I was certain of that by the age of seven,

and I still believe it now.

They don't show themselves to us,

but they're always watching us.

I know they are.

I don't know

what you're hoping to get,

but I am a professor.

And I just

I mean, I'm not a ufologist.

So, I'm a professor of religious studies.

And so I study religion.

To focus on whether it's real or not

is actually focusing on the wrong thing.

We really should be looking

at the meaning of these events for people.

Because it has completely shifted

not only individual lives,

but also the belief in UFOs

is now a new global belief system.

It's different than a religion,

but it's religious-like.

If you look at my research,

there's a continuation,

a theme, of looking up at the sky

and seeing things that are unknown

and then trying to identify them.

And today, we're still seeing

that people see things in the sky,

but what they're seeing in the sky today

is what they believe to be,

like, advanced technology.

Whereas a thousand years ago,

they would think, "Maybe that's an angel."

Or, "Maybe that's a demon."

Today, they look up,

and they say, "Well, that's a UFO."

Personally speaking,

I wish there were aliens,

but I dislike the feeling

that I'll be deceived

by people making up stories.

I hope to find true evidence one day,

but as far as I can tell,

there's been no definitive proof yet.

The urban legend of the UFO

began in America

with the first sighting in 1947.

No photographic evidence

had been found prior.

However, during my research,

I found another urban legend in Japan

dated much earlier,

the legend of the Utsuro-bune,

or the hollow ship.

They were in these kawaraban,

each dated to 1803.

During the Edo period,

a kawaraban was a tile-block print

that was like a modern-day newspaper.

At first, I thought the story

was about a foreign shipwreck.

But that's not what it was.

In my research, I've yet to discover

any ship in this period

that matches the descriptions

in these documents.

Every account of the ship's appearance

makes a note of these three windows.

And perhaps most notably,

many of the incidents make reference

to the presence of a strange woman.

Some people call this "space language,"

but the proper term is "light language."

When I speak it,

I take the wavelengths I receive

and output them into sound.

Sometimes it's musical.

Other times, it's words, like

This is how to make contact.

Both with space and with the aliens.

I am an alien.

I have been to many stars.

Currently, the Earth

is going through a great ascension,

and so I came here

to satisfy my curiosity.

Here we go.

Ready.

Japan doesn't really have a religion

the way we use the word in English.

An institutionalized religion.

There's nothing like the Ten Commandments.

Ethical characteristics

in Japanese culture

are learned through school

and through family.

So behavior and identity

is rooted in context.

In this context, you behave a certain way,

you can be a certain identity.

And then in this other context,

you can be something else.

And not blink an eye.

You could be a teacher,

you could be a performer,

and at the same time,

you can speak light language

and be channeling the aliens,

and know, perhaps,

that you're one of them.

Now I want you to recall

how you came to Earth

and what you wanted to do

when you got here.

It's a mystery,

but it's also a strength

in that Japan can embrace

what we think of as paradox

and go forward.

Three months after the earthquake,

my wife and I had

a close encounter ourselves.

That was a big turning point for me.

Our entire perspective

towards life changed.

It was a complete 180

in how we saw things.

How we saw everything.

It was some time after two in the morning.

My wife had woken up

in the middle of the night

and felt someone was watching us.

I woke up when I heard her scream,

so I immediately got out of bed

and went to look outside,

and right in front of us was a real UFO.

The first thing I saw

was this round, bright light,

and then it just got

closer and closer to us.

Of course I was blown away.

A gold UFO was hovering

right in front of our eyes.

He began to speak to the UFO,

and then the UFO would respond

by flashing its lights.

Suddenly,

it began to change colors.

Its gold light changed

to this deep pink shade

I had never seen before.

It was almost as if they were saying,

"You are all right." You know?

"You are welcome." Or something like that.

I think the aliens

were able to understand us

because we believed in them.

For a long time, no one knew

exactly where the Utsuro-bune

had been spotted.

It appeared to be a fictional place.

And so the logic follows

that if the place where

the ship was spotted doesn't exist,

then the story would have to be fictional.

That's what I believed at the time.

However, a new document

was discovered in 2014.

One of the most famous

ninja families in Japan, the Ban family,

is known for

their historical record keeping.

And in 2014, another record was discovered

and cited the location as

Hitachihara, Sharihama.

When I saw that, I was certain

that was the name I'd been searching for.

The Utsuro-bune was washed ashore

on this beach in 1803.

It had been spotted in the distance,

and so a group of local fishermen

used their boats to grab the Utsuro-bune

and drag it to the shore.

The legend says

that when they reached the shore,

they opened it,

and to their surprise,

they discovered a beautiful woman inside.

The first UFO sighting is still accredited

to the American pilot.

However, this sighting has been dated

all the way back

to the late Edo period in 1803.

Therefore, the Utsuro-bune is probably

the world's first that involves

an otherworldly visitor riding in a UFO.

One time when I was sleeping and lucid,

five aliens appeared to me.

The one in the center was a green alien,

and on either side of them

were these luminous white aliens.

I had been waiting for them for so long,

so I said, "Oh, you're finally here."

And then I told them, "Do what you want."

So I opened my hands

and spread my arms out like this.

I let go of everything

and gave everything to them. I felt happy.

Like I'd been reunited

with a long-lost friend.

The green alien beamed a light at me

and beamed my chakras here.

All five of them did, and then

I was enveloped in this supreme bliss.

I think that the five beings

appeared to me in the form of aliens

so that I would be able to recognize them.

They were light itself,

but they appeared to me

in the form of aliens.

Um, okay.

So, this question

of what we see in the sky,

is this objective,

or is it just subjective?

Did we just actually just see that?

And is it real?

And if you go back

into the historical record,

especially in the West,

you see that there are things in the sky

that actually do produce

real effects on people, okay?

So one case would be

the Stigmata of Saint Francis.

Saint Francis sees what he calls a torch.

And it emits some sort of light.

It basically zaps him with this light.

And he gets what in the Catholic tradition

are called the stigmata,

or the wounds of Christ.

So he gets burned.

The things of religion

are also unbelievable.

Angels coming down and speaking to people.

Walking on water.

These are also things

that are unbelievable,

and we only have

eyewitness accounts of those.

And we tend to believe those

without question.

So why do you separate

the categories of belief?

You believe this unbelievable thing,

but we don't believe in things

that we actually have some evidence for,

which are UFOs.

I find that people are usually frightened

by ghosts and mysterious stories

and spirits.

They view these spirits

as something to be scared of,

but they shouldn't be.

The people in Fukushima,

Miyagi, and Iwate,

those who were directly affected

by the earthquake,

still feel the presence

of their loved ones,

as if the ones they had lost

are coming back to them.

When we were searching for people

in the aftermath,

usually when we checked cars,

we would see

these bright blue-white lights

kind of hovering above a spot like this.

They seemed to be floating

over where someone had died.

So, if it was here, that meant

someone had died in this driver's seat.

If it was up here, then it meant

their spirit would be right here.

So you can kind of imagine it like that.

In Japanese folklore,

there's something called a hitodama.

It's like a fireball

or a bright ball of light

that floats in the air.

At the time,

I saw a number of them out there.

It's believed that when a person dies,

their soul ascends to heaven

as a hinotama, a fiery ball of light.

I find it hard to believe

that, in the aftermath

of catastrophes like these

where so many lives are lost,

most people would see

these ba*ls of light as UFOs.

I think most of us

would interpret these things as hinotama,

the lingering presence of the human soul.

To me, these mysteries

are just normal experiences

that are a part

of our regular, everyday lives.

And I think it's important

to remember that.

I was born and raised here.

There has always been

strong chi energy in this place.

You can feel how strong it is.

Some people believe

this place leads to heaven,

that's how nice it feels.

I believe that the frequent presence

of UFOs here

is because they want to come

and feel the energy for themselves.

Because it feels so good to be here.

Take a deep breath.

Hold it.

Japanese folklore

is full of these stories

of the spirits in the world around you.

Hayao Miyazaki,

one of his most popular films in the world

is My Neighbor Totoro.

And Totoro is this big, fuzzy creature

that could be terrifying.

You see his mouth

is full of these huge teeth.

But when I've interviewed

Miyazaki himself and asked him,

"Mr. Miyazaki, what is Totoro?"

You know, his answer was very quick.

He just said, "Totoro is Totoro."

"It's just Totoro."

I would say that the supernatural

and the natural in Japanese art,

in Japanese sensibility,

are both interconnected and intertwined.

But at the same time,

you wouldn't even think of them

as separate entities.

So they don't need to be intertwined.

They're not two things

that need to be together.

They are of a piece. One thing.

Call the newspapers! There are UFOs!

Here's a UFO!

I can't see anything.

Look! There's the UFO again!

I've never seen a UFO before!

There are so many of them!

There have been numerous

eyewitness accounts of aliens and UFOs.

But that's just it. Eyewitness accounts.

It's tricky because even if a witness

does see something,

they could be confusing

an aircraft with a UFO.

This likely applies

to the sightings from March 2011.

I don't need evidence.

I don't need

anything materialistic to believe.

- To me, it's

- we better to feel, the echo.

I try not to talk

too much about aliens.

I don't want people to think

I'm even crazier.

Honestly, I don't mind

if people think I'm crazy,

but it would be a shame

if they don't get the message.

In March 2011,

there was a light.

UFOs came in order to help

protect this world,

probably in hopes

of preserving the balance.

There was so much going on at the time.

It is not strange for this to happen.

I think if I were an alien,

a life-form beyond Earth,

and I saw such a massive,

almost catastrophic amount of energy,

I would want to have a look.

If you have hundreds

of well-documented UAP events

around your nuclear sites,

that's a really clear message.

My name is Robert Salas.

In, uh, March of 1967, I was stationed

at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana,

uh, as a m*ssile launch officer.

I was downstairs 60 feet underground,

in a capsule,

monitoring and, uh, controlling

ten nuclear-tipped missiles.

I looked at 39 accounts

from the '40s to the '90s.

So about a 50-year time period.

All of the witness accounts have

a certain degree of consistency to them,

which is, a UAP arrives at the site

I got a call that morning,

uh, that they were seeing

strange lights flying in the sky.

Uh

I disregarded that call, uh,

told them to call me

when something more significant happened.

It doesn't matter

if it's Malmstrom Air Force Base

or F. E. Warren or Minot

It just doesn't matter.

I got another call, uh,

subsequent to that call.

And this time, it was a more, uh,

intense tone in the guard's voice.

He was very clearly very frightened.

Um, he said there was a, uh,

a bright, glowing, red object

hovering outside the front gate.

It's in restricted airspace. It hovers.

It shines a light

on these nuclear weapons.

Right after that call,

my weapons start going down,

uh, one after the other.

They went into a no-go condition.

What we call a "no-go condition."

They were unlaunchable.

And that's not the only site

where that has occurred.

Uh, again, that morning, we were

after reporting it to the command post,

we were informed that a similar,

very similar incident happened

at Echo Flight.

They lost all ten of their weapons,

in under similar circumstances,

very similar circumstances,

where UFOs were sighted

over the launch facilities.

Radioactive energy was leaking everywhere.

I believe the UFOs came to readjust

the flood of radioactive energy

in order to save us.

That's my theory anyway.

And I think that's why

the Fukushima nuclear power plant

was not totally devastated.

Mm-hmm.

When Japanese people

talk about extraterrestrials,

or UFOs, or why they're here,

a lot of it is about achieving

or restoring balance.

That life, modern life, is out of harmony.

And the benevolent view is that aliens,

whatever you wanna call them,

are coming in, or are concerned,

and are trying to restore

a sense of balance to the world.

If we could hear them, they'd say,

"Oh, earthlings,

our brothers and sisters."

"You've begun to use

nuclear energy, haven't you?"

"That's wonderful," they'd say,

"that you earthlings have evolved so much

with your technology and all,

but we can't leave you unsupervised."

Nuclear power can be very dangerous.

Think of it like this.

Say there's a kitchen

and a child who goes to the stove

to cook with a frying pan.

We all see how dangerous that is.

The parents have to make sure it's safe.

I think that's why the aliens came.

To look after us.

Should we be scared?

Of aliens?

You don't have to be scared of them.

Think of aliens

as being on the side of humans.

I've never met one that was mean.

I think

they came at that time

to make sure

things were properly in balance.

I believe that's how

they expressed love for us.

I think

this is an intelligence that recognizes

the depth of human creativity

and wants to preserve it.

I think this intelligence cares about us.

I think this intelligence

does not want us to go extinct.

That's what I think

is really being communicated.

"We're,

we're right here with you."

"Just open your hearts, open your minds."

"We'd like to help you."

"And, you know,

let's get to know one another."

I think that's really what the message is.

The earthquake

was a very painful experience for me.

The encounter we had with the UFO

was so vivid that it transformed me.

It both transformed me

and completely healed me.

So, to me, their presence

is really comforting.

Kind and comforting.

A UFO is an event.

When a person has an experience,

say they see a UFO,

they're different afterwards.

I know this sounds really strange,

but the relationship to the cosmos

changed for these people.

Almost like a religious

conversion experience.

It changes their worldview.

It changes the way they work.

It changes their relationships to people.

It fundamentally, completely changes them.

In 2016,

I experienced an "astral abduction."

That is the abduction

of one's astral body,

where it enters a UFO.

There was a screen in front of me.

I'll tell you what they taught me

inside the UFO.

The Earth is alive.

So much happens to us.

Everybody experiences trauma.

In the midst of trauma,

people can learn to hate each other.

We feed off of the negativity

and feel negative ourselves.

And it's because of that,

all that negative energy,

that we lose sight of what's important.

So we all need to change our perspective.

We need to remember

what we felt like as young children.

We need to remember our innocence

and return to that unbiased state of mind.

We need to clean up our consciousness

and cleanse ourselves

to lead humanity to cosmic civilization.

And at the very end,

I saw the Earth aglow with golden light.

I saw it on the screen, and I understood.

The future of the Earth is bright.

And I could see

a Golden Age is coming to Earth.

Human beings

are born into this world for a reason.

I believe that we have to work hard

with one another

to bring peace to the world.

And with the support of invisible power,

gods and UFOs, peace is possible.

When you talk about UFOs,

I think the Japanese story about it

is the ability to embrace mystery

and let it be.

It's not that what is seen is different.

It's the way the story is told

about the experience

that I think differs

between Americans and Japanese.

It's much less

about this complete otherness.

The mystery of the UFO and of the alien

just is.

And that's enough.

When I looked at those lights,

I saw how beautiful the human soul is.

How beautiful we as humans are.

That goodness resides in each of us.

At least, I think that's

what the lights showed me.