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The Japanese government is analyzing a trove of previously classified Pentagon files on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) released by the United States, including two videos of sightings near Japan.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara confirmed at a press conference in Tokyo that the government is gathering and analyzing information related to unidentified aerial objects on a daily basis while maintaining coordination with the United States and other countries. Kihara said he personally viewed the footage following the US Department of Defense’s release of 162 files containing videos, photographs, and documents linked to unresolved aerial incidents.
米国防総省が公開した未確認異常現象（UAP）資料について、木原長官は本日の会見で「映像を確認した」と言及。日本政府としての情報公開についても、安全保障上の観点を踏まえつつ「個別具体的に判断する」と述べました。 pic.twitter.com/wRbDF3l5q7
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The material was released after US President Donald Trump ordered further declassification of Pentagon records connected to UAP investigations. One nearly two-minute video from 2023 reported by the US military’s Indo-Pacific Command shows three distinct areas of contrast maintaining fixed positions and orientations relative to one another near Japan. A second nine-second video from 2024 shows a UAP that resembles a football-shaped object near the East China Sea.
On the question of Japan releasing its own UAP files, Kihara said the government would make specific case-by-case decisions after comprehensively considering various factors, including the risk of intelligence-gathering capabilities being exposed.
In 2024, a group of approximately 80 Japanese lawmakers was established to investigate UAPs as a serious security issue. In March the group urged the government to create a specialized department devoted to UAPs directly under the deputy chief cabinet secretary for crisis management.