in Russian). Igor Lissevich knew Chinese and was a reliable source. The original — 1981
references are quoted as “Records of the foremost deeds of Huang-Ti the Great” and
“Glorification of the three tripods of Huang-Ti” written by Zao Ji. The Yellow Emperor Huang-Ti is said by tradition to have reigned from 2698 BC to 2598 BC. Circa 2357 BC Japan’s “divine man” and his luminous monster Entries in various UFO lists mention that “According to Tau-se from an ancient manuscript called Sey-to-ki, during the time of Emperor Ton-Yo, in the year of “MonSham” a divine man descended from the sky, using a “monster that was emitting light” (spacecraft?). The people called this man “the master.” He received the name Tankun (Sandalwood God) and his country was called Peson.” The source for this item is Space Visitors in Ancient Japan by Mikhail Rosenshpitz in Unbelievable World No. 8, August 2004. When we tried to research this item it was found to contain spurious information and we could not locate anything supporting it, unfortunately a frequent situation with both online cases and UFO books. In this case, our first goal was to obtain a copy of the original article by Rosenshpitz. This proved more complicated than we expected because it turned out that Unbelievable World did not exist. The correct Russian name of the magazine was Neveroyatnyi Mir, a paranormalparanormal news journal distributed in the Ukraine. Steering away from sensationalist press wherever possible, we decided this was not a source we could use. Observant readers may have noticed that the year given is also spurious, because even legendary Japanese rulers date back only as far as Emperor Jimmu, who supposedly founded Japan in March 585 BC! No real or mythical Japanese emperor had a name resembling Ton-Yo. After playing with different spellings we realized the account must be from Chinese tradition, not Japanese. Indeed, Tause was just an unusual transcription of Tao-se, or “Tao Teacher.” The information may refer to the legendary Lord Yao or Tangyao, who supposedly reigned between 2357 and 2258 BC However, as we could find nothing resembling the story of the “divine man” and the light-emitting monster in the Chinese literature available to us, we quickly lost faith in the account. Circa 2208 BC A Chinese Emperor flies away from danger The emperor of China is said to have flown in an aerial machine and descended back to earth, (reference: Hervey - Winkler catalog, published by FUFOR - the Fund for UFO Research). It turns out that this is a story about Emperor Shun, who supposedly reigned between 2258 and 2208 BC. However the actual incident has nothing to do with the machine’ account. In the Shi Ji (Historical Records) Sima Qian relates that Shun’s father Gu Sou wanted to kill him. Finding him at the top of a granary tower, he set fire to it. Shun escaped by assembling a pile of large conical straw hats together and leaping down! See The Shorter Science and Civilization in China Vol. 4, by Colin A. Ronan: Cambridge University Press
Source: Case: W454