Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono said that the country's air force has never encountered a UFO, but his department will develop all the necessary protocols for such a meeting. This decision was made by the Japanese authorities after the Pentagon published a video of meetings of American pilots and unidentified objects in the air, reports The Japan Times.
According to the current regulations, ASDF interceptors have the right to force an aircraft that enters Japanese airspace to land, or to convince the pilot to return. In the event of a UFO encounter, these prescriptions are obviously useless.
Therefore, the Ministry of Defense of Japan decided to develop a special regulation, prescribing the sequence of actions for pilots when meeting with an unidentified flying object.
Kano himself clarified that he does not believe in any UFOs.
On April 28, the US Department of Defense officially released videos of the US Navy, which show an "air phenomenon", which the country's authorities describe as "unidentified."
All three videos, filmed by the crews of American combat aircraft in 2004 and 2015, have previously been in the public domain. Their "unauthorized publication" was in 2007 and 2017. The US Navy then recognized the videos as authentic.
“Through careful analysis, the Department has determined that [Pentagon-approved] release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any important [USF] capabilities or systems. The Pentagon publishes these videos to dispel any misjudgment by the public as to whether the leaked footage was real, and whether there is something else in the videos,”the US Department of Defense said.
At the end of 2017, information appeared in the media that the Pentagon had previously operated a classified program for collecting and analyzing data on "anomalous aerospace threats", which was in charge of the US Defense Intelligence Agency. In 2007-2012, $ 22 million was allocated for it.
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The program was led by a career US military intelligence officer, Luis Elisondo, who quit in 2017 due to the lack of seriousness in his work from the Pentagon leadership.
The US military later released videos of US military pilots in contact with suspected UFOs. At the same time, the apparatus of the US Congress stated that the implementation of the program did not bring any sensational data.