The Lost Scout

I don't know the exact source of the photograph above. Clearly it's an 'Adamski type scoutcraft'. I don't recall exactly where I got it from either (downloaded it years ago). I think I got it from the now defunct MSN group Cosmic View. In any case the picture was claimed to be taken in Onomichi City, Japan, on 10-11-74. However, when I did a search on the internet I do get a UFO sighting listed on that date but the circumstances are totally different. That in turn makes me think the time and place are incorrect. The photograph itself does look 'seventies' to me. I continued the search on ufocasebook.com and the closest match is (circumstancial-wise) the picture below.

April 9, 1976 Nagoay City, Aichi, Japan. At 2:00pm, Hirohito Tanaka saw a small dark circular-shaped UFO with a raised dome in the center. The object made a low pass over his neighbor's house. He grabbed his Instamatic 126, and took seven photographs.
The text above is from ufocasebook.com. When I do a search on that I get some more intriquing results. Here's a quote from another website;

1975-09-12; Nagoay City, Aichi, Japan
At 1:30pm on September 12, 1975, and only nine days after photographing the carrier ship, Hirohito Tanaka saw the small ships in the sky over his city again. It was just after lunch when he happened to look outside and saw the small disc-shaped flying objects again flitting about and performing their now familiar falling-leaf maneuver. There were seven of them in the southwest sky and they were disc-shaped with a raised dome on top.

Okidoki. Think the lost scout is found. Here are some more quotes;

1975-09-03; Nagoay City, Aichi, Japan
At 2:30pm on September 3, 1975, 12 year old Hirohito Tanaka was doing his homework in the living room of his house in Nagoya City. He happened to look up and out the big picture window and saw something flying high in the sky above the scattered clouds that day. Looking closer, he could see that it was a very unusual flying machine, dark and cigar-shaped. He obtained a camera and quickly snapped 8 photographs of the cylindrical ship that was launching and recovering smaller circular domed disc-shaped machines, some of which came down and flew low over the city.

1975-10-04; Nagoay City, Aichi, Japan
At 2:00pm on October 4, 1975, high school student Hirohito Tanaka watched a small bell-shaped flying object descend to near ground level in a "falling-leaf" kind of motion. It left a trail of white vapor or exhaust in its wake as it flew. Near the ground it steadied, levelled off, and flew away horizontally until it was out of sight. He grabbed his camera and ran to the balcony where he managed to snap several black and white photographs of the ship. When the white trail drifted to the ground it was found to consist of spider-wep-like filiamentary substance that evaporated away in a few minutes. The white material seemed to be ejected from the top part of the small ship.