Japanese legislators who formed a committee on Thursday to look into the issue said that UFO sightings shouldn’t be written off out of hand since they may actually be weaponry or surveillance drones.
The nonpartisan organization, which has more than 80 members, including previous ministers of defense, will push Japan to improve its capacity to identify and evaluate unidentified abnormal phenomena, or UFOs.
Despite the fact that the phenomena is frequently connected in popular culture to tiny green men, it has gained significant political attention in the US.
NASA stated in September that it wanted to move the discourse “from sensationalism to science,” and Washington stated last year that it was looking into 510 UFO claims, more than three times as many as it had in its 2021 file.
The legislators from Japan want to align the domestic impression of UAP with that of its ally after many scares associated with possible monitoring activities.
Before the launch, group member and former minister of defense Yasukazu Hamada remarked, “It is extremely irresponsible of us to be resigned to the fact that something is unknowable, and to keep turning a blind eye to the unidentified.”
Unauthorized video of a parked helicopter destroyer recently appeared on Chinese social media following an alleged drone incursion into a military base, embarrassing Japan’s defense government.
Furthermore, the ministry stated last year that it “strongly presumes” that Chinese surveillance balloons were the reason behind flying objects seen above Japanese sky in recent years.
Yoshiharu Asakawa, a key opposition politician, has stated that UFOs are considered in Japan to be “an occult matter that has nothing to do with politics.”
However, “cutting-edge secret weapons or spying drones in disguise, they can pose a significant threat to our nation’s security” if that is what they actually are.
