Japanese military given instructions on UFOs

0:00 the japanese military have been given instructions to record and report sightings of unidentified aerial objects which could pose a potential threat to the country's security taro kono the country's minister for issues the instruction following the u.s department of defense founding its unidentified aerial phenomena task force while the popular imagination has been excited by ufos the military takes uaps as they are formally known very seriously declassified ufos filmed by u.s navy pilots the risk for security officials is that the spotted aircraft are something which an untrained observer is unable to identify but which could be a foreign incursion into domestic airspace but sometimes the uaps appear to be even more mysterious earlier this year the pentagon declassified three videos of strange elliptical objects racing across the sky the black and white videos were recorded by navy pilots one in november 2004 and two in january

1:01 according to the u.s department of one of the clips shows a dark circular object flying in front of a jet another shows a small object speeding over land and the third shows a circular object racing and then appearing to slow down as it approaches the camera mr kono cited these videos and explained that while the japanese defense force pilots are not believed to have ever encountered a uap his intention was to develop a procedure in case such an encounter ever took it is not the first time that members of the japanese government have broached the topic image footage of ufos has been released by the us dot the defense ministry previously stated in 2015 that it had never encountered alien spacecraft although the country's then chief cabinet secretary nobutaka makamura said personally i absolutely believe they exist then defense minister shigeru ishiba added that in his personal opinion there were no grounds to deny that there are ufos controlled by alien life forms

2:01 although this was not the official government position celebrities fascinated by ufos include rock star tom delong who spoke to sky news about his work on the subject earlier this month saying he would not have put music on the back burner just to chase monsters and ghosts former blink 182 star on leaving rock for ufo's astronaut edgar mitchell the lunar module pilot for apollo 14 publicly stated he was personally 90 sure that many reports of unidentified flying objects or ufos belong to visitors from other he suggested that he had met officials from foreign countries who had personal encounters with alien beings and suggested that governments were covering up such contacts that said he always maintained that he had never seen a ufo and that he had never been threatened regarding those claims he also said that ufos being covered up was his own personal speculation