Hakui, Japan's self-styled 'UFO town', opens the Cosmo Isle Hakui museum

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The Cosmo Isle Hakui space museum building in Hakui, Japan
Cosmo Isle Hakui, the space museum opened in 1996 by Japan's self-styled UFO town Motokoka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hakui, a coastal city on the Noto Peninsula that promotes itself as a UFO town citing an old shrine manuscript about objects in the sky, opened the Cosmo Isle Hakui space and UFO museum in July 1996. It displays genuine U.S. and Soviet space hardware beside UFO material.

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  1. OfficialCosmo Isle Hakui Space and UFOs Museum (opens in a new tab)Ishikawa Prefecture (Visit Ishikawa)
  2. PressUFOs in the land of the rising sun (opens in a new tab)Salon (Steve Burgess) / 2001-05-31

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