Elite members, those who sign on for three years at 20,000 yen or 30,000 yen, are entitled to special T-shirts and locally brewed sake, and all members can attend UFO-related events. civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold in the state of Washington in 1947.Īny UFO believer can become a member of the organization by paying a 10,000 yen ($74) one-year membership fee. The date commemorates the first reported UFO sighting by U.S. In 2021, the International UFO Lab, which collects and disseminates UFO sighting reports to its members around the world, was established in Iinomachi on June 24, which is also designated as World UFO Day. Those who remain, however, believe the future can be bright. The population of the former town peaked at approximately 9,500 in 1955 but has since almost halved. Around 30,000 people from in and out of the prefecture visit annually.Ī UFO festival, in which participants dressed in alien costumes to take part in a parade and contest, was held for the first time last year to mark the museum's 30th anniversary. The "UFO Fureaikan" museum opened halfway up the mountain in 1992 to display around 3,000 books, photos and other resources related to aliens and UFOs, some of them donated by the famous late UFO researcher Kinichi Arai. 20, 2023 shows a bus stop resembling a UFO in Iinomachi district in Fukushima, northeastern Japan. Visitors to Iinomachi cannot avoid having close encounters with extraterrestrial life everywhere, including UFO-shaped streetlights, bus stops, flags and even an alien statue. Senganmori, which the locals speculate is a possible ancient pyramid due to its shape and the large rock formations in its surrounds, dominates the scenery. The area, formerly categorized as the town of Iino and integrated into the city of Fukushima in 2008, has a dwindling population of some 5,000 people. Recent headlines about airborne objects with unclear origins, including a suspected Chinese spy balloon, have created geopolitical tensions, but a Fukushima municipal government official said their focus is considering possible extraterrestrial life from a more "romantic" viewpoint. Residents believe they live in a UFO hot spot and speak of repeated appearances of unknown luminous flying objects over the past four decades near the conical 462-meter-high Senganmori mountain. 20, 2023 shows a statue resembling an alien in Iinomachi district in Fukushima, northeastern Japan. I'll be interested in hearing what the general reaction to GRACEFIELD is when it's released in eleven days.Photo taken on Jan. My interest in anything takes a nosedive as soon as I hear that it's found footage, but I'll still give any movie a chance if it stirs up good word of mouth. Ratthe stars in the film alongside Kimberly Laferriere, Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles, Juliette Gosselin, Alexandre Nachi, and Laurence Dauphinais. ![]() The weekend takes a terrifying turn when a meteorite crashes the party forcing everyone to face the darkest, screaming nightmare while somehow connecting life, love, and loss in a twist of fear. Matthew Donovan, a video game editor, embeds an iPhone camera into his prosthetic eye to secretly record and document a weekend with friends in a luxurious mountain top cabin. To help get you prepared for this event, we have shared the film's latest trailer below.Īlthough its production probably predates the release of V/H/S/2, the concept of THE GRACEFIELD INCIDENT basically sounds like a mash-up of two different segments from that anthology film: the found footage showing the alien invasion is shot through a camera inside a man's prosthetic eye. It's been a long wait, but THE GRACEFIELD INCIDENT is finally making its way out into the world on July 21st, when Momentum Pictures will be releasing it in select theatres and on VOD and Digital HD. ![]() If the title THE GRACEFIELD INCIDENT sounds familiar to you, it may be because we first heard of writer/director Matthieu Ratthe's found footage alien invasion project more than three years ago, when we shared the first trailer for the film.
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