Case file · High strangeness
The 'spacesuit' dogū of Kamegaoka
A Jōmon clay figure with huge goggle-like eyes, found at Kamegaoka in Aomori in 1887, is often claimed by ancient-astronaut writers to show a visitor in a spacesuit.
1887 CE · 40.85, 140.30 · status: explained
The account
The figure, made around 1000–400 BCE, is an Important Cultural Property held by the Tokyo National Museum.
The sceptical view
Archaeologists read the eyes as a stylised convention (possibly snow goggles or closed eyes) seen in many Jōmon figurines; nothing in its context suggests technology.