When the Korean War came along, I went into the army.
While stationed in Japan, I began studying early Shinto legends and ancient mythology.
To my surprise, these early tomes were loaded with references to aerial battles, underwater castles, exotic weapons, TV, and flying dragons that flew 6,000 leagues a day.
What really impressed me were some prehistoric statues called dogu.
From my previous experience with the diving and aircraft industries, I felt sure these things were depicting a diving suit, or a space suit, or a combination of both.
Dogus were made by a Neolithic people called the Jomon, who were the first persons on earth to make clay pottery.
The 7,000-year-old drawings at Val Camonica, Italy, the prehistoric Tassali, Sahara, and ancient Australian Aborigine sketches all show helmeted, suited-up figures.
I have found, in checking, about a dozen words of Dogon and Japanese which are virtually identical.
These visitors lived in an artificial pool they brought with them. Like the Kappa and the Fisher King, they had a bald spot on top of their head which, some would say, is still observed withthe Catholic monks' tonsure.
They told the Dogon their ships came from a planet circling a dwarf star near the star Sirius. Our astronomers did not locate this star until 1952.
These beings were called the nommo.
Note that the names of these water-living creatures Nommo, Oannes, and Kappa all have a double consonant.
It is interesting that Japanese mythology is full of stories about underwater creatures (Umi Bozo) and others who engage in aerial warfare (the Ashura).
There are stories of underwater castles seen on a clear day at the Inland Sea.
Underwater lights have been seen in Yasushro Bay for over 1,000 years.
In ancient times three suns appeared in the sky.
A saucer-shaped craft landed, and a blonde woman was seen inside.
Japan's greatest saint Nichirin Diashonin was saved from beheading when a meteor streaked over the frightened executioners.
The Russians are well aware of dogus, and Professor Kasantsev, also feels they are depictions of space suits.
Kasantsev, incidentally theorized that the 1911 Tunguska explosion was actually a nuclear-powered spaceship that crashed on the Siberian tundra.
The Japanese reaction to all this is a bit puzzling.
Hundreds of dogus are dug up every year, yet virtually nothing is mentioned about it.
Yukio Matsumura, the early UFO researcher and founder of the Cosmic Brotherhood Association, has been under virtual house arrest.
There are several Internet web sites called dogu and Jomon, but I have found them to be almost useless.
In July 1997 a Japanese artist displayed in San Francisco a statue which was obviously made to ridicule dogus.
Why?
Does the government know something they don't want the public to know?
Is there some hidden knowledge about early Shinto legends which says the first emperor was the product of a sky god mating with a human?
And why has the Japanese government recently given 40 million dollars to start a UFO conference center?
Is this part of a campaign of misinformation?
The largest tomb in the world, over a half mile long, sits in Japan, some would argue, like a huge space beacon.
This keyhole-shaped structure has never been opened, it is claimed. Is there any relationship here with the recently discovered underwater pyramids recently discovered off Japan?
