Record 026 · 14 September 2020

Japan Self-Defense Forces UAP procedures

Japan Ministry of Defense · Japan

Ledger illustration of the record — not a scan of the original paper. — Night Ledger illustration of the file

MemoUnclassified

In 2020, answering questions in the Diet, Japan’s Ministry of Defense said it would establish procedures for Self-Defense Forces aircrew to report unidentified aerial objects, in light of the U.S. Navy’s public UAP work. The ministry did not release a cache of Japanese cases. It released a policy: if something unidentified is seen, it should be written down.

That is a document of a kind. An allied air force decided that silence was no longer the procedure. The paper is unclassified parliamentary record, not a sighting.

Public file: Japan Ministry of Defense / Diet record

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NRO UAP/PURSUE Reporting Memorandum

National Reconnaissance Office · United States

Internal directive appointing a PURSUE coordinator and expanding the working definition of UAP to include phenomena that may suggest non-human origins, with instructions for prompt internal reporting.

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National Reconnaissance Office UAP / PURSUE Memorandum

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This internal memorandum appoints a PURSUE designee, defines UAP broadly to include phenomena that may suggest non-human origins of materials, behaviors, information, or communication (explicitly referencing non-human intelligence), and directs prompt internal reporting while addressing NDA restrictions in the context of the presidential unsealing initiative.