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a ufo lab in japan by charles lear on

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june 24th of this year world ufo day the

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international ufo lab was established in

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japan it is housed in the ufo freiakin

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ufo friendship center a ufo center and

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museum that was built in 1992 in the

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town of linomachi which is now a

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prefecture of fukushima the facility is

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city owned and run by the linomachi

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promotion corporation it was built using

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money from a regional development fund

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in an effort to help promote the area as

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a ufo hotspot after numerous sightings

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starting in the 1970s around nearby

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mount singh and maury the lab is part of

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a new revitalization effort for

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fukushima as a whole

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japan's history of private ufo research

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goes back to the 1950s but the official

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stance until 2020 was that ufos weren't

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worthy of consideration the material

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housed in the ufo free aiken comes from

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a donation of over three thousand items

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from early japanese ufo researcher

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kenichi arai arai ran a bookstore in the

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early 1950s and developed an interest in

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flying saucers while reading books on

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the subject that were increasingly being

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published at that time arrive felt there

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was a need for serious discussion of the

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phenomenon and formed japan's first ufo

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organization the japanese flying saucer

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research association in 1955 arai was a

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pacifist and according to him i told

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myself that if we knew for sure that the

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aliens were watching us we would no

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longer fight therefore i decided to see

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if i could prove that the aliens were

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real something that might be

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particularly of interest to ufo

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researchers and possibly american

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authorities is a collection of purported

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classified ufo-related cia documents

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held at the museum awry claimed to have

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gotten them from an american friend who

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had access the curators value the

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documents to the degree that they keep

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them locked in a vault year round and

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only display them on world ufo day the

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director of the international ufo lab is

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takahara mikami who is the editor of the

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japanese for tian magazine mew according

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to him the lab will be a research

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institute that will attract worldwide

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attention he added we'd like people to

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provide us with a lot of information

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part of the lab's mission is to attract

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researchers from all over the world to

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help in the staff's efforts to shed

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light on the ufo mystery there is a

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website where those interested can apply

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for membership someone could perhaps

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suggest to mikami that it might help the

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lab's international efforts if the site

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wasn't almost entirely in japanese until

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recently japan had no publicly stated

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official policy on ufos in 2018 japanese

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defense minister taro kono stated that

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the official view on ufos was that no

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confirmation has been made of their

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existence and that the government had

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not considered in any specific manner

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what will be done should a ufo be cited

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flying toward japan then in september of

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2020 kono announced that japan's

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self-defense forces would make efforts

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to record and photograph ufos and

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analyze reports from all sources

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including the japanese public this

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announcement came after a meeting with

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u.s defense secretary mark esper where

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the two discussed ufos as an area where

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the two countries could cooperate just

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prior to this in august the us had

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announced the creation of a task force

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that would detect analyze and catalog

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unidentified aerial phenomena that could

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potentially pose a threat to u.s

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national security besides the

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international ufo lab and the museum

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exhibits the ufo free aiken offers

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something else to attract tourists

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according to the travel site japan

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journeys there is a resting room and a

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bath house on the second floor

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overlooking an amazing landscape what