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For years my brother, and I, have searched for any mention of this fantastic sighting in 1969 and he is still nervous about revealing details of it. It's apparent that it was reported to higher HQ but as of today there is no mention of it anywhere at all. Of course all servicemen at the base were ordered never to say anything about the incident. My brother still gets chills when he tells the story.

About 2330 hours a Marine chopper over a nearby bay reported a huge harshly glaring orange colored light which appeared to be coming from beneath the water.
They were ordered to keep it in sight. About 10 minutes after they first saw it a large object semi-circular in appearance emerged from the water and shot up to an altitude of approx 8000 feet (in seconds)
The chopper followed the bogey NW toward the air base in question where for over 25 minutes it hovered over a road next to the base fence. A few minutes after it appeared around the base there was a power failure which affected most of the hangars and living quarters at the base area- closest to where the object was. It was captured on radar and the Marine chopper was consistently within 1/4 mile of it the entire time. When the object finally disappeared it appeared to blink out like a bulb although it still showed on radar for a few more minutes. As you can imagine there was very little sleep on the base that night. There were photos taken of the object and weapons were issued to extra sentries nearest to the object. I would imagine the best chance to get some information on this incident would be to question some of the Japanese civilians who were present that night.

A day later about 30 marines at the base were questioned by several men wearing civilian clothes (Not my brother)

When the chopper first saw the object they reported that the water in the area of it actually appeared to be boiling and there was what appeared to be steam coming from the surface.