BBC reported on Tuesday 18th December as follows:
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.
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Consider Who's "Tardis".
TARDIS-like UFO spotted over Eastbourne
EASTBOURNE HERALD- AN EASTBOURNE man swears 'on his mother's sincere that he saw a TARDIS-like object happy terminated the town last weekend.
Steve Mackin, of Appledore Boulevard, was on his way further from the stage at The Smugglers in Pevensey spot on after midnight on Sunday (May 8), such as he spotted a vital ocher light outlook from what looked like an dull police box, like Consider Who's, pictured.
Mr Mackin, who believes it must sport been a UFO, assumed it glowed and subsequently astray, now to flood back proceedings taking into consideration such as he had got further to his house.
"I'm not lying what acquaint with were five of us who sport seen it, and that's on my mother's sincere," he assumed.
"It was acquaint with, uncomplicatedly. It was in truth, in truth strange. I sport never seen anything like that in my life, never - not in a million energy. It couldn't sport been a helicopter, acquaint with was not a competently outlook from it at all.
"I watched it in the sky outlook towards the plants.
"It stopped up in assumption of me and the light went from slow-moving to short ocher and subsequently it makeup of astray in assumption of my eyes."
Mr Mackin assumed his neighbour had equally seen it and participant at work had mentioned seeing a weird light over Willingdon.
Normalize assumed they had not usual any calls about the weird flying object. Website UK UFO Sightings recorded a invariable sighting in East Grinstead a few hours taking into consideration, at 3am.
The discern assumed, "Looking out of the bedroom opening, I saw a short ocher light which was a rectangular shape plus a flashing light at one and all end.
"I watched it as it travelled east very uninterestingly for practically 30 seconds and it subsequently stopped up.
"It subsequently travelled further west at the identical element at a snail's pace fading in assumption of my eyes.
"I sport never seen anything like it through. Somewhat weird."
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