It looks like Japan is starting to take UFO encounter severely . On Monday , Defense Minister Taro Kono unveiled new protocol on what to do if Japanese military force meet unidentified flying objects , or UFO , according to Japanese tidings agencyKyodo News .
Kono asked staff office in charge of protecting Japan ’s air space to document any such phenomena and record it on tv camera if possible , with the aim to carry out “ necessary depth psychology ” of the sighting , including any selective information provided by the public .
The annunciation this week follows other late moves by the minister that suggest Japan is butt against towards an official program to report UFOs . Kono met the US Secretary of Defense Mark Esperin Aprilthis year when the issue of UFOs – technically , Unidentified Aerial Phenomena ( UAP)–was contribute up in conservation . It was note that the US Air Force had shot footage of a UFO , referring to the videos thatwere exhaust by the Pentagonthis year . Although Japan ’s Defense Ministry tell there have been no known vitrine of its Self - Defense Forces encounter flying saucer , “ I would like to make a procedure in case of an encounter , ” Kono said .
“ To be honest , I do n’t really believe in UFOs , but the Defense Ministry has bring about such an range , so I would like to take heed from the US side a little analysis of this intention and what you think , ” Kono say ata media conferenceafter the coming together .
“ I have heard that even the pilot of the Self - Defense Forces has never encountered such a scene , but if there is such a thing , if you could take a word-painting , take a picture , if there is a report , cover it . I would like the Air Self - Defense Force or each Self - Defense Force to confer with about how to do it . ”
Beyond this , however , details are currently thin on the ground .
This follows apush by the US Senate Committeeoverseeing the intelligence activity community to regulate and make publicly uncommitted any reports by the Pentagon ’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon tracking programme to help clarify , categorize , and examine information .
Over 50 year ago , the US considered Japan as a model for dealing with extraterrestrials , according to the Japanese newspaperAsahi Shimbun . However , the Cold War - era saw the US become the chief thespian when it comes to sympathise unknown ethereal threats . In July 2020 , theNew York Timesrevealed that the Pentagon still operates a covert program to inquire unidentified flight target , hide aside in the Office of Naval Intelligence .
coincidently , the married woman of Japan ’s former leader once advise she was abduct by unknown .
“ While my body was asleep , I imagine my soul turn on on a triangular - shaped UFO and went to Venus , ” Miyuki Hatoyama , the wife of former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama , claim in 2009 in a book titledVery Strange Things I ’ve Encountered , Reutersreports .
“ It was a very beautiful place and it was really green . ”
Well , Venus is unbelievable to be green due to a surface temperature of 470 ° 100 ( 880 ° F ) but after this week ’s discovery of thepossibility of living on Venus , we imagine its popularity as a destination has just shoot up .
