Japan is now tracking and investigating UFOs
By Austin Williams

TOKYO - Local Japanese news agencies reported earlier in September that Japan’s Defense Minister Taro Kono has requested the Self-Defense Forces follow new protocols regarding possible interactions or sightings of unidentified flying objects which might pose a threat national security.

In a statement obtained by Japan Times, Kono ordered members of the military beginning Monday, Sept. 14, to record, photograph and investigate any unknown objects that mysteriously enter Japanese airspace.

Orders include implementing “necessary analysis” of such sightings, including sightings by the public, according to Japan Times.

The outlet reported that in 2018, the Japanese government publicly stated its position on UFOs, saying, “No confirmation has been made of their existence.”

Kono’s September announcement came after an April press briefing by the Japanese Ministry of Defense, which announced that it would implement guidelines to track and investigate UFO sightings.

The decision followed the release and declassification of videos by the United States which show an encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015.

Photo of UFO captured by U.S. Navy pilot.

After the release of the videos, reports surfaced of a top-secret Pentagon program conducting classified briefings for over a decade, analyzing various encounters between military craft and unidentified aerial vehicles.

In July, the Pentagon stated that the program was disbanded, but a Senate committee report from June revealed spending on a program called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) Task Force.

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During a September press briefing, Kono said he has been in talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on UFO sightings in Guam.

An Aug. 29 news release by the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed the meeting between Esper and Kono in Guam, a meeting that was meant to discuss “views on their shared vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific region.”

Astrophysicist and former consultant for the UFO program since 2007, Eric W. Davis, told the New York Times in July that he gave a classified briefing to the Defense Department agency as early as March regarding “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”

In September, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that three UFO videos that were released by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge and published by The New York Times were of real "unidentified" objects.

“The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified," Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault, a website dedicated to declassified government documents.

This story was reported from Los Angeles.

'No I hadn't been drinking': Fuzzy yellow 'UFO' hangs in sky for 10 minutes before vanishing

The strange object was lingering over Redmashall village

The strange object seen in the sky (Image: Paul Davies)

A puzzling fuzzy bright yellow circle was spotted hovering in the sky this week - before suddenly vanishing.

Paul Davies saw the "UFO" over Redmarshall, near Stockton, on Wednesday night, before it "just disappeared".

He whipped out his phone and snapped some blurry photos of the strange object in the distance before sharing the unusual sight with Teesside Live.

He said: "So I saw a UFO Wednesday, it was bright yellow circle with bright yellow lines coming out of it, symmetrical all the way around and it just hung there in the sky for about 10 minutes.

"Then it just disappeared!

"It photographed totally different to the naked eye - and no I hadn’t been drinking."

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