‘Home to aliens’: Rural Japanese community believes the truth is out there in Iinomachi

Visitors to Iinomachi in Fukushima prefecture are greeted with UFO-shaped street lights, flags, bus stops, and even an alien statue. - INFO_UFO/TWITTER

TOKYO (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Residents living in a rural community in north-eastern Japan are convinced that they live in an unidentified flying object (UFO) hot spot.

They speak of repeated appearances of unknown luminous flying objects over the past 40 years near the 462m-high Senganmori mountain in Fukushima prefecture, reported the Mainichi Shimbun on Thursday (March 30).