The Kofu Vineyard Landing

Two boys were roller-skating in Kofu when they saw two orange lights. One resolved into a round craft that came down on three legs in a vineyard between Kamimachi and Matsuzuka-cho. They approached to within a metre or two of it. A door opened with steps, and a small figure emerged in silver, described as wrinkled and fanged. It touched one boy on the shoulder. They ran.

What is on the record

Two tellings on a single channel, two claimants, and no documents. The claimants are the boys, counted as one unnamed group, and the woman driver of the second telling. The grade is testimony.

What lifts this above a children's story is what happened next. Parents ran to the vineyard while the encounter was still in progress and are described as seeing the intense orange light disappear and a figure moving sideways. The site then produced physical traces: a broken concrete vineyard post, a pressed depression some fifty to sixty centimetres across, marks resembling footprints, and soil showing slightly elevated radiation.

The second telling is the more unusual corroboration, because it involves someone unconnected to the boys. A woman driving nearby heard sounds she compared to fireworks, then found two child-sized figures with black faces standing at a crossroads who would not move for her horn. One pressed a wrinkled black hand against her windscreen, close enough for her to see it clearly. She later passed adults and children hurrying towards the site with poles.

Neither the trace measurements nor any investigation report are in our holdings.

Why it sits where it does

L3 on multiple claimants and two independent strands, carried by one channel. Physical traces and an unconnected second witness make this one of the stronger files in this batch. What landed in the vineyard is not resolved here.