Japan will respond appropriately to information that could affect the defense and security of the nation, including information on unidentified flying objects, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato has said.
The U.S. government reported Friday that 144 UFOs were spotted by the U.S. military and others from 2004 to 2021, but that there was sufficient data to categorize only one of them.
Speaking at a Monday press conference, Kato declined to comment on whether the Japan government would investigate these cases.
"Unfortunately, I have never encountered or witnessed anything like them," he added.
In April 2020, then Defense Minister Taro Kono said he would consider establishing procedures should there be an encounter with a UFO.
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