Continuing the Japanese UFO museum article...
Editors note
By Jorgen Westman.
As this seems a bit confusing I tried to dig deeper into the origin of these rumours of the alleged UFO museum and found that most of it is based on postings by Beyond Boundaries Inc., where crop circle researcher Colin Andrews are engaged. We were told that Command Sergeant-Major Robert Dean, USA/NATO (ret.) was supposed to be flown in to address the opening ceremonies crowd. He was arranging an expedition (along with his wife Cecilia) through Beyond Boundaries Inc. to the alleged museum. As I talk to Joyce L. Murphy (spokesperson of Beyond Boundaries) she says that:
"Bob Dean was not booked as a speaker at the conference planned for 18 July 1996 - In fact his wife had contacted the museum about putting him on the agenda - They told Cecilia that he was not on the first or second priority
list for speakers but they would keep him in mind - It was my understanding that a small part of the museum displays had been dedicated to a display of his work - but as nothing much was in place in the museum at the time I visited in March of 1996 I could not tell you whether or not the display is impressive."
The Japan National Tourist Organization send out a press release on July 31st where they stated that the three storie museum (they called the Cosmo Isle Hakui-museum a "theme park") have a special section with a library of accumulated official documents relating to UFO sightings. Nothing extraordinary about that. The same files can be picked up on the Internet by anyone who wants. The nearest to an out of the ordinary alien connection the museum has is the building/exhibition complex that is told to be shaped like a giant flying saucer complex.
Santili, Hesemann, Andrew, Penthouse & Takano
How could this rumour build up to this avelange?
I think there are two major reasons (this is my own view) and they are: west/US researchers that didn't care to look into the value of truth of the stories they were told by Japanese researcher Johsen Takano (38), Toru Wada (director and promotor of the museum) and Mr Takanishi. Or maybe the city officials and UFO-proclaimers didn't care to have their mutual information up-to-date.
At the same time there are connections to the Santili Autopsy-film, "over the top" researcher Michael Hesemann and Colin Andrews of CPRI News. But let's take it from the beginning. A special credit to John Stepkowski for his research in this affair.
In 1989 the Mayor of Hakui city, Kazuo Shiotani, announced that 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."
Note his words or a library. The museum was obviously the idea of the small textile town of Hakui, and its purpose was "to attract more conventions and tourists" by the help of some declassified UFO-documents.
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."
If the Japanese government wanted to educate its citizens about UFOs and, as Robert "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.
There are many stories coming directly from and attributed to Mr Takano that are "amazing", but none more than his incredible claim to have seen "official" U.S. government pictures of dead Roswell ETs. Michael Hesemann (Santili-film promotor) 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. No Chinese officials. Three of the photos was then published in a Hong Kong news paper. Here's a quote from the paper:
"Chinese UFO research expert Dr. Jiang (Chiang? Ed note) ... Rong points out that the "aliens" discovered in 1970 in the pictures belong to the type of "single aliens" (offered by Japanese UFO expert ...)."
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" from a Hong-Kong News Paper, appeared in the Showtime movie Roswell and recently appeared in 'Penthouse'. (Dummies made by New York FX-artist Steven Johnson. Editor's note)
According to Toru Wada Hakui's library has more than 10,000 official documents relating to UFO phenomena. Wada says that 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. WOW! you might think - but don't. This is the Hottel memo released under the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) that you can find on a number of Internet sites.
Joyce L. Murphy at Beyond Boundaries and a team of hers went to the unfinished museum in March and met with Mr Jun Ichi Takanashi, Japans oldest UFO researcher. She says in a letter to me that Mr Takano told her verbally that the museum was to show "bits and pieces of wreckage from Roswell type crashes, etc."
It seems as the UFO-followers (Takano and Toru Wada) didn't answer to the expectations of the 60 construction sponsors of the building. Appearantly Trudy of Teleport send a fax to the Deans who send it along to Joyce of Beyond Boundaries, saying that the UFO-conference that was about to follow the opening was cancelled due to beaureacratic and political differences and that the museum
opening itself would allow only invited guests. Colin Andrews had gotten the same fax so it must have been the standard one sent out by the museum.
Here is a quote of a letter she posted to IUFO:
"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. When we visited the unfinished museum last March the director of the museum - not mentioning names here either - 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 and there was no doubt the guy was totally sincere and then when we were present May 18th in Burbank for the "alien implant" removals he was also a guest for the event, traveling all the way from Japan."
But that doesn't explain Mr Takano's strange behaviour of misleading so many people over the years about the true intention of this museum's UFO-library.
In Joyce letter to me she gives her view of the reaction of the restricted use of the word UFO along with the museum.
"Colin was one of the researchers selected as a speaker for the conference scheduled for the 18th of July a few weeks after the official opening date of July 1st. Colin was very shocked to receive the FAX about the museum's decision not to use the word UFO at this time - that they felt it was not appropriate to do so. Colin said that there is no doubt in his mind that the museum was exactly as we were told - that they were going to reveal information to the world that governments had hidden from their populace - and Johsen Takano told me that most of the tangible evidence to be shown was from a source that the world would never guess - and I cannot reveal that source either at this time - would not be fair to Johsen - He told me that someday he would tell me much more on this subject - I really felt a close connection with Johsen upon that first meeting also."
Seems like Joyce L. Murphy and Colin Andrews wanted to belive Mr Takano a little bit too much. I'm asking myself why? They're supposed to be skilled researchers, and if a person come on strong about that he has evidence in the form of real UFO-debris and maybe even bodies - you check it TEN TIMES before you blow the whistle.
So here's the beef:
1. Why did Mr takano claim it was an official Japanese government UFO eduction project when it all along was a cheap local Hakui City mission to attract tourists?
2. Why did Mr takano claim that the rubber ETs on display at the Roswell Research Center & UFO Museum, Showtime movie Roswell and Penthouse, was the same ones seen in the Santili footage?
(Picture from Santili footage. Simular to the dummie by FX artist Steven Johnson above?)
3. Why did Mr Takano provide Chiang with some of the rubber-doll-ET pictures he claimed he'd received during his alleged high-level visit to the CIA, that Chiang later published in a book?
4. Why did Mr Takano claim to have been 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) and representing himself as an exchange agent between Japan and the CIA to Santili?
5. 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!"'
6. What "evidence" was it that Johsen Takano told Joyce L. Murphy, that is supposed to be the most tangible evidence to be shown and that it was from a source that the world would never guess?
Adding to that - Joyce L. Murphy has given hints that the reason to the Japanese governments reason to deny their support for a major UFO uncover-up is a trade agreement between the Japanese and US government (a bribe from the US to the Japanese to shut up).
This is strange thinking as 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?
As I asked Joyce L. Murphy of how she looks at all this now (September 12th) she says:
"A little disappointed that the world has been duped again - and most don't even care - they are being fed small dishes of the subject now on TV and other media and it seems to be going into the fantasy memory sections of their brains. When they experience their first alien encounter - they will just turn their heads and say no way - they just exist where they were planted - in our fantasies."
Reading her answer it seems crystal clear to me that this case is about American researchers that is eager to belive anyone who claims to be sitting on UFO-debris, bodies, etc. As we have looked into Mr Johsen Takano's somewhat "fantastic" stories and claims of the past, it seems like the US UFOlogists have been had - big time.
I don't want to offend Joyce L. Murphy. She seems like a lovely woman who is sincere in her research, and I hope she don't feel to bad about this. But the fact is - they rather belived the Japanese spokespersons without questioning, and told the world without checking it up. And now they answer to that. Sorry Joyce and Colin!
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