UFOs exist, says Japan official

Japan's chief government spokesman has announced that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) exist.

Earlier, in response to a question from an opposition lawmaker, the Japanese government issued a statement saying it could not confirm any cases of UFOs.

But Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura later told reporters he believed they were "definitely" real.

It is the sort of question politicians dread but, under Japanese rules, are unable to ignore.

A member of the opposition asked the government what its policy was to deal with UFOs.

He said work should begin urgently to try to confirm whether or not they exist because of what he called "incessant" reports of sightings.

The Japanese civil service swung into action.

In a statement it said that should a flying saucer be spotted in the country's airspace, a fighter would be scrambled to attempt visual confirmation.

But it emphasised that the government was not aware of cases where a UFO from space had been discovered.

Most alerts turned out to be birds or other objects.

'Not confirmed'

The document revealed that Japan has not yet planned what to do should aliens arrive here.

The government's chief spokesman Nobutaka Machimura drew laughter from reporters when he admitted that this was a "stereotypical" response from the bureaucrats.

Perhaps with his tongue a little in his cheek he insisted that he believed UFOs did "definitely" exist.

Questioned about the existence of alien spaceships, Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda thought about it and then answered carefully.

He said he had "not yet confirmed" whether they existed.

The conspiracy theorists will note that the answer was not a "no".

Theres some stuff floating around the Internet now and a video from Haiti, one of the best ever shot, of two UFO's that joined 6 or 7 others in a distance. I saw it last night.

It's about a 30 second clip.

I saw one similar to it a few days ago, but it has since disappeared completely and doesn't seem to exist anymore.

It was somewhat longer and very detailed. It had also been verified that no tampering had taken place and it was authentic footage of some unidentified flying object.

These machines, whatever they were had reportedly shown up on radar too. The story line was that these objects are real and the government knows about them, it's time to tell the public for once and all what is going on.

But like I said, every trace is gone now and it doesn't seem to exist..

Makes one wonder even more.

My honest thoughts are, the general public can't handle the truth and mass chaos would break out IF they knew we are not alone.

I agree, a big ugly can of worms and nobody will be able to put the lid back on.

I'd think one would have to be rather ignorant NOT to think we are alone. I'd like to say there would be no mass panic, but..knowing human stupidity,..there probably would be.