Humanity’s quest to uncover the origin of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) through the so-called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) persists. This curiosity, seen in the United States and Mexico, has now reached the Japanese coast.
Japanese lawmakers met on Tuesday (May 28) to form a nonpartisan group that will urge Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government to establish an organization to investigate UFOs. The group will be led by Yasukazu Hamada, the parliamentary affairs leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, also from the LDP, will serve as secretary-general, the Japan Times reported.
Japan’s UFO committee: What’s next?
The group is scheduled to hold its founding general meeting on June 6, following a preparatory meeting on May 28 in Tokyo. Earlier, the U.S. government created a specialized organization within the Department of Defense to investigate UAP.
Japan’s UFO committee: What do they aim to achieve?
The lawmakers will urge the government to gather and analyze information on UFOs and seek cooperation with the United States by forming a counterpart organization. In its initial statement, the group said it aims to determine whether the UAP, frequently reported over Japanese territories, are secret weapons or unmanned spy drones from other countries. They seek to identify if these phenomena are advanced spying devices posing a significant security threat to Japan.
The group is also requesting that all parties in Japan’s parliament designate representatives to join the UFO committee. Last year, a Pentagon report concluded that the spike in UFO sightings in the 1950s and 1960s was due to tests of advanced U.S. spy planes and space technology.
