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Japanese lawmakers launch cross-party UAP group

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Official portrait of Yasukazu Hamada, 2022
Former defense minister Yasukazu Hamada, who headed the cross-party UAP group Cabinet Public Relations Office, Japan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More than 80 Japanese lawmakers formed a nonpartisan group, headed by former defense minister Yasukazu Hamada, urging the government to create a body to gather and analyze UAP information and to work with the U.S. AARO. Members framed UAP chiefly as possible security threats.

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  1. PressJapan lawmakers launch group to probe UFO sightings, 'threat'AFP (via Daily Sabah) / 2024-06-06
  2. PressJapan lawmakers want govt to guard against security risks of UFOsReuters (via Yahoo News Australia) / 2024-05-29

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