This article was published in The Grafton Daily Examiner, Australia, of July 12, 2002 and is an AAP report from Tokyo.
Flying saucers have now appeared over Japan. The first flight was reported by a police officer at Kagoshima, in southern Kyushu.
The police officer Shigeru Arrifuku, who made the report, said that while on duty shortly after midnight on the morning of July 9, he saw some hyphen-shaped brilliant objects flying over Kagoshima Bay in a wave-like manner. The objects were flying north west at about 3000 feet. Kayashima weather Bureau said the "saucers" might have been balloons released by the Bureau after midnight.
