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E.T. captured at Leonids night

Alien in a space suit found on November 18: a friend or an invader?

By Eviman Irimamovic
NASA Network

What might be a visitor from outer space was picked up by an ordinary citizen of Toyota-city, Japan, late at night on 18th of November when he was observing the Leonids which many of the population also enjoyed then.

Watching obscure objects other than stars falling from the sky, the 39-year-old first thought them to be mere pouring frogs as usual in the region , but shortly afterwards, he realised they were not. Thanks to a small trampoline his daughter had happened to leave in the car, he managed to capture one of the falling. It was still stirring when caught and was in what looked like a space suit though smeared badly with soot.

Driven by aroused curiosity, the amateur astronomer immediately gave up the observation and dashed back to home to examine the object in detail. What became clear when washed thoroughly under tap water was that it had two arms and two legs like ours, thus resembling a human being. Not knowing if it was still alive, he brought it to the Toyota Police Station at 3am on the following day. The police dealt with this potential E.T. as a lost property yet with little expectation of any claim from the owner.

"What I picked up must be an alien because its height of approximately 80 centi-meter is obviously far too short for a human", said the finder of the property. "It might have tried to disguise itself as one of us by putting the earth-made space suit on. Their intention may even be to attack us", he added excitedly. But a specialist is less enthusiastic: "it is just impossible to tell if the life form is from outer space at this early stage of investigation".

The postmortem is planned to take place at the Nagoya University Hospital. In the meantime, the Green Peace Japan is bound to protest the examination, saying that it was lack of morality which allowed the scientists to make such a decision [of postmortem] when the being was not yet proved to be dead. But some experts disagree with them questioning whether our concept of death can be applied to those from outer space?

Incidentally, there is another argument : Where should this new type of lost property be brought? Debate on the issue including feasibilityof new legislation is likely to start soon nationally and internationally on this planet.