June 1974 Japanese fighter collides with ufo

The following excerpt is from Chris Rutcowskis book "the big book of ufos"

"During an ill-fated Japanese military encounter with a UFO, an F-4 Phantom jet had its on-board weapons system lock on to an object that appeared to be approaching at high speed. The pilot and his weapons officer thought the object on their radar screen was a Soviet aircraft, which often would play cat-and-mouse with their own planes. But as it came in visual range, they saw it was a 40-footwide disc, with square openings on its side.
When the Japanese crew locked its weapons on the UFO, it increased speed and collided head-on with the jet’s nose cone, forcing the crew to eject. Unfortunately, the weapons officer died as a result of the accident. According to one published source, the Japanese government never acknowledged the encounter with the UFO, only attributing the in-flight accident to “a collision with an unknown object at 30,000 feet.”

Chris Rutkowski - The Big Book of UFOs



Try as i might i cant find information on this case anywhere.Does anyone know anything about it?

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regards f.

I did some more digging today,scoured google,checked with wayback machine and also checked the site posted by fakedirt(thanks buddy) and came up with 0 indications of this ever happening.As is its currently only mentioned in that book


So i decided to check on the author himself and see.He has 5 books so far here

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of which im not familiar and i also found his twitter account here

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If anyone is using the twitter platform would he be so kind as to ask him there for source on this incident?I have never heard of a case of ufo colliding on purpose with an aircraft.Ussualy they keep a steady distance or avoid contact.This is the first case i hear that this has happened.

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Had this statement saved mate and think it may be this one - no further info but pilot names included.

"It was made and flown by intelligent beings."

Major Shiro Kubuta, of Japan's Air Self-Defence Force. Kubuta and his pilot, Lt. Colonel Toshio Nakamura, were scrambled in an F-4EJ to intercept what they were told was a Soviet Bomber.Once Airborne they were informed that their target was actually a UFO which had been sighted by ground and was being tracked on radar.
When they closed upon the red, disk-like UFO, it began to manoeuvre around the plane, causing Nakamura to take evasive action.

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Great catch Karl,thats it,i ll try to dig some more info on this,for now ive found it in this book

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