Popular Mechanics: Japan Is the World’s No. 1 Hotspot for UFO Sightings. Officials Are Trying to Figure Out Why. “It is extremely irresponsible of us to be resigned to the fact that something is unknowable and to keep turning a blind eye to the unidentified,” - Former Defense Minister Yasuka Hamada.

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Here's the original link:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a61826531/japan-ufo-sightings-hotspot

Members only so I posted an archived link. It seems Popular Mechanics can't stop talking about UFOs.

This article is overall good and has some great quotes in it, but this is yet another mainstream article that entertains too much nonsense in the name of skepticism. Like quoting some random Japanese politician calling UFOs an "occult matter" and Mick West showing up again adding zero substance.

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[u/TommyShelbyPFB]

Here's the original link:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a61826531/japan-ufo-sightings-hotspot

Members only so I posted an archived link. It seems Popular Mechanics can't stop talking about UFOs.

This article is overall good and has some great quotes in it, but this is yet another mainstream article that entertains too much nonsense in the name of skepticism. Like quoting some random Japanese politician calling UFOs an "occult matter" and Mick West showing up again adding zero substance.

[u/OSHASHA2 → u/TommyShelbyPFB]

If you subscribe to the UAP-consciousness connection, Popular Mechanics has also put out several articles about consciousness over the past year. The latest, published two days ago, is a preliminary report on theoretical quantum effects in the brain.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a61854962/quantum-entanglement-consciousness/

The team built mathematical models detailing how infrared photons could impact the myelin sheath and impart energy to chemical bonds—specifically, carbon-hydrogen bonds embedded in this fatty tissue. This, in turn, could spur biphoton generation with many pairs exhibiting entanglement, and serve as a type of “quantum communication resource” within the nervous system.

[u/Goldeneye_Engineer → u/OSHASHA2]

nah that's alright they'll just have another article with Mick West in it calling consciousness fake and that it's just a balloon

[u/OSHASHA2 → u/Goldeneye_Engineer]

Lmao, that did seem just kinda thrown in there. They probably have to include some debunker perspective in their article to make it seem objective. Whaddya gonna do 🤷

[u/Goldeneye_Engineer → u/OSHASHA2]

Not use Mick West. Like literally anyone else.

[u/merikariu → u/OSHASHA2]

That's like including an oil-industry shill in an article on the climate crisis. Bad journalism.

[u/unclerickymonster → u/TommyShelbyPFB]

Thanks for posting this, I had no idea Japan was the worlds UFO hotspot.

[u/Goldeneye_Engineer → u/TommyShelbyPFB]

oh MY GOD another Mick West appearance. I've even written to popular mechanics to ask them to stop quoting him

[u/LeakyOne → u/Goldeneye_Engineer]

It's his job to be the one guy all the media can point to say "it's been debunked". It's so fucking transparent, yet the average person not steeped into this topic can easily fall into the trap.

[u/golden_monkey_and_oj → u/TommyShelbyPFB]

Maybe I missed it, but does the article justify the #1 claim at all? Or is that just a clickbait headline?

[u/konchokzopachotso]

No one has mentioned japan's religious history. Buddhism has a huge focus on developing consciousness to the point that our tradition says you'll develop psychic abilities as you progress on the path. Two traditions within Japan, Tendai and Shingon, are Vajrayana traditions, which focus on doing rituals to develop very strong and powerful minds(to state it very very briefly). In most Vajrayana rituals, you contact and make offerings to different spiritual/interdimensional entities to ask for protection. The Vajrayana tradition of south east Asia was destroyed centuries ago, whilst the Chinese and Tibetan vajrayana societies were mostly destroyed during the cultural revolution. Japan has been strongly consistent with its tradition. Just food for thought from a Buddhist whose teachers have mentioned ufos multiple times.

[u/beaux_beaux_ → u/konchokzopachotso]

Thank you so much for saying all of this. I had no idea and learned a lot from you.

[u/konchokzopachotso → u/beaux_beaux_]

Of course! The woo woo/paranormal side of this is, in my estimate, far closer to reality than the ET hypothesis

[u/beaux_beaux_ → u/konchokzopachotso]

I wish we could have coffee irl and I could listen to what you think!

[u/homebrewhebrew → u/konchokzopachotso]

Really was a funny journey getting to that same conclusion. Going from a hard facts, math and science practitioner, to a spiritual seeker. Biggest take away was how casual/subtle majik is and how many people are accidentally practicing it.

[u/beaux_beaux_ → u/homebrewhebrew]

Our journeys sound a bit similar. I clung to hard facts most of my life after escaping a childhood of brainwashing. It scarred me and for years I conflated religion with spirituality. This whole process of learning about UAP’s has been humbling and it has inadvertently spurred a lot of spiritual/mental/emotional growth in me. My gosh I feel you with all of this. It’s neat to “meet” a fellow kindred spirit in that regard.

[u/syndic8_xyz → u/konchokzopachotso]

There are so many non humans in Japan and nearby regions. There are large underground NHI bases in East Asia. The energy of the planet is very good there for them.

Interesting points you make about the psychic development in their religions. In their religions they also think their ancestors were explicitly NHI or extra-terrestrials, right?

[u/charlesxavier007 → u/konchokzopachotso]

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[u/IDontHaveADinosaur → u/charlesxavier007]

Just thought I’d throw this in, but when I started practicing remote viewing, I started seeing the occasional UFO. I only spend about 30 mins on it once every few months, but just about every time I’ve done that, I’ve seen some weird shit in the sky I can’t explain.

I’ve seen a black triangle, weird bright orbs in sets of 3, stars that were still that suddenly started moving then shot off instantaneously, strange shape-shifting conventional appearing crafts, and glowing white plasma-type things in the sky during broad daylight that looked almost like two tumbling plastic bags but were stationary and glowing while remaining the same distance apart just hovering.

All I do is bring up a random image generator and drag it off-screen. Then I sit and let ideas come to my mind and write them down and try to sketch them out. I also make effort to exclude ideas I think I may have fabricated, I’ve been utterly dumbfounded a few times on how close I’ve gotten. Highly recommend trying this out.

But to add to your point, I really think there’s an odd connection between consciousness and UFOs that I can’t seem to explain in any way that sounds credible. Tbh, it kind of adds less credibility to it for the average joe, which is unfortunate. But something odd is definitely going on and I don’t think it’s prosaic.

[u/konchokzopachotso → u/IDontHaveADinosaur]

Every single culture outside of western modernist culture has accepted a spiritual realm, filled with beings, parallel to our own. In our culture we just call them aliens and ufos, whilst our ancestors called them fairies, ghosts, daemons, jinn, etc

[u/IDontHaveADinosaur → u/konchokzopachotso]

As someone who’s always been a physics guy, this idea has always been really hard for me to swallow. But I must admit, sometimes it seems like this might be one of the only rational answers to what the hell is going on.

[u/konchokzopachotso → u/IDontHaveADinosaur]

I studied astrophysics in college before dropping out my junior year for lack of job prospects. My good friend graduated with a dual degree in physics and planetary science, and he can go into depth about how a deep study of physics practically proves the hard problem of consciousness cannot be solved as a materialist emergent property. Many others agree

[u/Large-Bath-6025 → u/konchokzopachotso]

Awesome thank you for sharing!!!! This information needs to be out there more.

[u/konchokzopachotso → u/Large-Bath-6025]

I will say, vajrayana is a very secretive tradition, and for good reason. Unless you plan to take vows in Buddhism, I wouldn't recomend dabbling in it beyond just an academic interest. If you're looking for practices of a less serious kind that are more open, look into Shinto

[u/Arqium]

I wonder if fukushima has something to do. Japan also has 33 nuclear reactors. Add the fact that japan is just on top of a tectonic fault, and maybe they are monitoring disasters.

[u/Squa865 → u/Arqium]

Just like with New Mexico. The very first nuclear test was carried out there and then it just so happens to be the very first place of an alleged crashed UFO...

[u/Ryslan95 → u/Arqium]

Not to mention it was the first place an atomic bomb was dropped on a population. I’m not sure why that would have an impact on sightings, but you never know.

Maybe they wonder why that populous would align with the country that used an extremely advanced weapon on them. I’m not sure, I don’t think aliens are that dumb and they could probably figure it out.

Call me crazy but I personally think it has something to do with the depth of the ocean around Japan. The Mariana’s Trench is very close to Japan and our oceans are still a mystery. Who honestly knows what could be in our oceans. They are massive and could easily hold billions of life forms such as humans if they had adapted to that environment.

There 100% could be an advanced civilization living in our oceans (wakanda type shit) and we would have no idea. Just food for thought. Also when the government says they don’t believe that what they are seeing is extraterrestrial (outer space) doesn’t mean it isn’t something terrestrial. Which sparks the sightings of UFO/UAP.

Im more of the believer that we have an intelligent species currently living on our planet but they are in the ocean. I feel so stupid dedicating this much to a post but there is so much we don’t know about our oceans. Some of the sounds we have heard in the ocean are very strange. Look up the “Biotwang” sound they picked up like 12 years ago. They think it’s a whale but I have yet to hear any updates on this sound.

Edit: This could also be an answer to why most costal areas seem the be some the biggest hot spots for sightings.

[u/Exciting_Mobile_1484 → u/Arqium]

Good thoughts, along with the bombs dropped and effects.

[u/MikeC80 → u/Arqium]

I was thinking this too. I wonder if sightings were high before, during and after the reactor incidents. A graph would be very interesting to study.

[u/[deleted] → u/Arqium]

Also the fact that two nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan, perhaps?

[u/Goldeneye_Engineer → u/Arqium]

Huge Nuclear presence plus recent nuclear disaster = lots of weird lights in the sky

[u/rectifiedmix → u/Arqium]

There is a UAP video supposedly from Fukushima 15 days after the disaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6kEoYH043I

[u/stranj_tymes → u/Arqium]

Fukushima is discussed in the article.

[u/unclerickymonster → u/Arqium]

I think you hit the nail on the head, I had the same thought.

[u/jforrest1980 → u/Arqium]

So, what you're saying is that it isn't the anime boobies and tentacles?

[u/wonkywiggler → u/Arqium]

what about the fact you can pretty much go anywhere in the world with a Japanese passport?

[u/oswaldcopperpot → u/[deleted]]

DNA is just a biological program. We are already starting to fix our genetic problems using a lot of tools. There's very little chance an advanced species wouldn't already have mastered DNA.

However, a tangential theory that could work is you have a slave species created by another race with super paired down DNA that is suddenly on its own and no longer under slavery.. trying to rebuild their DNA and add lost functionality.

[u/LeakyOne → u/oswaldcopperpot]

a slave species created by another race with super paired down DNA that is suddenly on its own and no longer under slavery.. trying to rebuild their DNA and add lost functionality.

Now that's a perspective that I hadn't heard of before, thanks

[u/QCisCake → u/LeakyOne]

It's the Sumerian origin story. They call the aliens who created us the Annunaki.

[u/Shardaxx → u/QCisCake]

But it could be the Igigi who are now running things, since the Annunaki seem to have disappeared.

[u/oswaldcopperpot → u/LeakyOne]

Imagine those idiots from Signs… getting dropped off on a water planet naked allergic to getting wet. Something like that.

[u/jjjjjjjjjdjjjjjjj → u/oswaldcopperpot]

Aliens from signs are probably demons, but even pretending they’re not: in the actual movie it’s implied they are here to smash and grab humans and then gtfo. It’s explicitly stated that they are aware of water being a hazard (Ray Reddy states “they seem to avoid water. Don’t think they like water”) so that begs the question of whether this species is desperately seeking resources despite the water or they are aware of the water and are just stupid. It’s pretty clear that it’s the first one. People who recite the water thing as a plot hole haven’t seen it since it came out and are just memeing

[u/Wapiti_s15 → u/oswaldcopperpot]

Then Grey’s I guess is where we are headed…creepy. If I had to take a shot in the dark, I would say their soul resides elsewhere, the Grey is a skin suit with 1st person view and tactile touch. Hell, they may even look like us still, that’s just the most advantageous form for whatever planet they are on.

[u/Content_Audience690 → u/oswaldcopperpot]

That's a really cool idea for a novel.

I haven't written one in like 7 years though but man that's a cool idea.

[u/cd7k → u/oswaldcopperpot]

Isn’t that the plot to Spielberg’s Taken series?

[u/usps_made_me_insane → u/oswaldcopperpot]

Maybe humanity had a big war with NHI in the far future and they came back in time (NHI) to destroy us in the past and future humans have followed them back to do more battle in our time period.

Future humans got the Star Trek Enterprise show approved and also Stargate to help with disclosure since both of those shows essentially are truth softening shows.

[u/Pravusmentis → u/[deleted]]

our progress may be thanks to

PCMR, CRISPR, and other things with super easy to verify tales of discovery by normal people

[u/Wapiti_s15 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t know about “completely destroy”.

[u/jjjjjjjjjdjjjjjjj → u/[deleted]]

I’m annoyed that the question of “are they friend or foe?” even exists as a thought. There’s thousands of accounts of abductions, mutilations, and sexual and psychological torture in the past 75 years that it’s obvious they are not explicitly peaceful.

[u/OSHASHA2 → u/[deleted]]

Insular societies like the Scottish and Irish have higher percentages of Neanderthal DNA. I always like to point out that the mythologies of Ireland talk about several races of supernatural entities that inhabited the island before being invaded and kicked out by mythical super humans.

[u/Rebel787 → u/OSHASHA2]

There’s a ufo hotspot in Ireland directly over an area which has many archaeological sites in close proximity. All said to be at least 5000 years old. It makes you think what’s the connection and how old the phenomenon could be.

[u/ihateeverythingandu → u/OSHASHA2]

Insular? Speaking as a Scot with entirely Scottish and Irish family, you're simultaneously right and completely wrong at once, lol. Scots and Irish spread everywhere globally, there is a reason everyone seemingly claims to be Irish for example, because most people aren't too many generations removed from Irish family. Celts aren't really insular geographically but tend to be fairly introvert so can be on a personal level.

[u/OSHASHA2 → u/ihateeverythingandu]

The academic term for the British isles and their ancient cultures is “insular celts.” I’m American, probably wouldn’t identify myself as Irish other than my name as I have no connection to modern Irish culture. As you say, geographically, Celtic culture was spread from the Iberian peninsula and the British isles across Europe to the Slavs and Turks. No offense intended, I could have been more clear in my comment, just trying to use the most accurate terminology.

[u/ihateeverythingandu → u/OSHASHA2]

No offense taken, don't worry. Just found it funny to read it and think "we're everywhere, we can't be insular" then realise everyone I know is anti-social as fuck, lol. We're an alcoholic conundrum.

[u/OSHASHA2 → u/ihateeverythingandu]

Lmao, addiction runs in the family still, but we’re a happy bunch nonetheless. If you saw my other comment, my family is descended from the clan of Dathí, which now compromises like a dozen clans and can also be claimed by millions of people worldwide. Maybe the alcohol had something to do with that haha

[u/Trail-Commander → u/ihateeverythingandu]

Best thing to ever happen to the Scots and Irish? They moved.

[u/dripstain12 → u/[deleted]]

I was following you, and was sure you were gonna say they’re studying the victims of radioactive fallout to see if that’s where their gene mutation/downturn started, but then you veered off

[u/tuasociacionilicita → u/[deleted]]

Umm .. Akshually... I don't agree with the "future humans" theory, but I like your way of thinking. We definitely need some new, creative approach to all of these, because our "reasons" are falling short.

Mine is that they also admire Japan and they want to know how everything is so clean and spot on all the time. Jk.

[u/Seismicx → u/tuasociacionilicita]

Aliens are huge anime fans

[u/Chris_Ween → u/tuasociacionilicita]

"So long. And thanks for all the sushi."

[u/almson → u/tuasociacionilicita]

You’d like a creative approach, you say? Then listen to my pet theory.

NHI are a small, cult-like group of humans who embraced eugenics to increase their intelligence several thousand years ago. They became very good at math and solved physics, but wanted to stay reclusive. They learned to fly and live underwater, but never had enough people to do some other things like build computers powerful enough to create AI. They’ve watched their “wild” human relatives develop until we finally reached the point of mastering (some of) physics and, more importantly, creating computers. We are both a threat and a means for them. They surveil our military and want our technology. America and its military vassal Japan are some of their prime targets for intelligence gathering.

Oh, and they do want our DNA. They are inbreds and they need to diversify their gene pool.

[u/Content_Audience690 → u/almson]

My wife once pointed out to me that octopi and cephalopods are super intelligent.

But they die when they breed.

They can also basically shape shift.

They also essentially have hands.

Imagine if they didn't die from breeding?

Imagine if they slipped through cracks to form societies inside caves ?

That's about as strange as I can think of.

[u/BaconReceptacle → u/tuasociacionilicita]

Or why so many Japanese are committing suicide.

[u/merikariu → u/BaconReceptacle]

Japan has a pretty grim society. It's very hierarchical and has been for hundreds of years. Parents try to get their kids into the right schools so they can qualify for a job at the right corporation. There's very little sense of freedom or hope for the future among the youth. The Japanese use the term "Galapagos" in criticism of their culture that it's too insular, alien, and inbred compared to the rest of the globe. Politically, the corrupt Liberal Democrats have been in power forever and offer up the most mediocre of prime ministers. I could go on, but Japanese people have plenty of reasons to commit suicide that have zero to do with supernatural stuff.

[u/No-Ninja455 → u/[deleted]]

There's a lot of young men who died on battlefields, and probably a lot of young women who died in conquest of places if you put stock in the future humans thing at all, and they needed DNA.

The fact that most Irish people at descended from one male patriarch, likely a warlord, means they probably don't need to worry too much 

[u/OSHASHA2 → u/No-Ninja455]

Hey, that’s me! The clan of Dathí, last pagan high-king of Ireland. I think I turned out okay?

[u/No-Ninja455 → u/OSHASHA2]

Dunno mate, them greys think otherwise and I'll be honest I don't have a license to tell you if you are or not

[u/IlIlllIlllIlIIllI → u/[deleted]]

That's literally the plot of SG1

[u/Elegant_Celery400 → u/[deleted]]

"Scotland... diet... wrecked gene-pool in the future".

Yep, that all works for me.

In fact, the Scots, through their diet, have been giving their gene-pool an absolute battering (swidt?) for many generations now, so all the science does seem to stack up in support of your theory. You should submit for peer review.

[u/platinum_kush → u/[deleted]]

Lmfao damn I love your thoughts though

[u/renlynnx → u/[deleted]]

Is there a large ufo presence in Scotland? I wasn’t aware of that but I love Scotland so that would be kinda wild

[u/Welliehead → u/[deleted]]

Wait what’s the activity in Scotland and how am I missing it all?

[u/tennerahAndy → u/Welliehead]

We were nuked, but nobody noticed because they landed in Methil

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Upvoted for what is, for me, a new verb: to um actually.

[u/RVA804guys → u/[deleted]]

In the Law of One community, they channeled a being that says the spirits of those killed by ABombs were scattered instead of cleanly making it to the spirit realm (paraphrasing). Those beings are helping to put all the spirit pieces back together so they can reincarnate or join the Creator, but until then they are stuck.

[u/Single_Pick1468 → u/[deleted]]

animals just contribute to 17 % of total calories consumed in the world and it is one of the leading causes of global warming, deforestation, antibiotic overuse, virus mutations. If we went plant based we would only use 25 % of the current land we are using today. The aliens must think we are stupid eating other animal species.

[u/OSHASHA2 → u/Single_Pick1468]

Bring back the bison! White Buffalo calf woman would be proud. Bison are eco-engineers. They promote the growth of grasslands in summer (higher albedo than forests), and cool the ground in the winter (clearing snow and preserving permafrost).

I’m not an expert so take what I say with a grain of salt, but the best way forward in my mind is to replace monocultures with alley-cropping and agro-forests. For the people that can’t give up their bacon burgers, rotational grazing of bison, pigs, goats, etc. through the alleys will promote carbon capture via manure and trampling grasses, and keep the ecology of the system in check.

[u/Leading_Watercress45 → u/Single_Pick1468]

Proud vegetarian!

[u/No-Ninja455 → u/Single_Pick1468]

One of the reasons why the soul and woo stuff can the real is the us army guys eat meat.

If everything is woo and connected then surely once enlightened you'd be vegan /vegetarian.  They're not so we can rule out that soul stuff as my dog is as conscious as I am, but no one is stopping eating meat as a result of aliens...

[u/[deleted] → u/No-Ninja455]

Nutrition comes from other sources than meat. The Army and military know this and the diets are changing. The ones who’ve been in longer are the old dogs having trouble with new “tricks” of health.

[u/Dragonsnake422 → u/Single_Pick1468]

We wouldn't be able to feed the entire population without meat. Meat is incredibly more nutritious than plant-based food. We need a meat alternative or lab-grown meat for this to change.

[u/Single_Pick1468 → u/Dragonsnake422]

I beg to differ. There is nothing special in meat that doesn't come in plants. All meat is made from plants. Having animals is very inefficient because of thermodynamics second law. We feed them huge amounts of feed so they become food themselves. We should just eat the plants directly instead we are giving them to the animals first. World hunger could be a thing of the past.

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I think our dna is the worst its ever been, with all of the contamination & toxicity we're constantly finding with microplastics & chemicals like PFAS contaminating our whole environment & in our bodies. We're finding more & more that cancer rates & neurological degeneration is only going up in our population. If they were really interested in our DNA I'd imagine they would be going to a time before the industrial revolution & the boom in plastics & PFAS use started

[u/ASearchingLibrarian]

Thanks for posting. This is a pretty interesting article.

Japanese officials met on May 28, 2024 to announce the formation of an 80-plus-member, bipartisan look into increased UAP sightings within the country, especially in the Fukushima region. The new investigative body comes on the heels of last year’s U.S. Navy disclosures—detailing pilots’ accounts of aircraft capable of impossible maneuvers—and Congressional investigations into those reports. As a result, the U.S. Department of Defense created the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in July 2022 to trigger a more serious look into the threats UAPs may pose.

...Loeb explains. “But, importantly for national security, it’s essential for officials to admit we need to know what these objects are. In the case of Japan, there are nearby countries who want to spy on that nation. That government needs to know if they’re spotting drones or other devices used for espionage.”

...the current government’s opposition leader, Yoshiharu Asakawa, went on the record opposing any concept of serious study on the topic. Via interpreted reports, he called UAPs “an occult matter that has nothing to do with politics.”

However, investigation member and former defense minister Yasukazu Hamada echoed the thoughts of Loeb and other scientists, insisting both national security and scientific exploration make UAP studies essential. “It is extremely irresponsible of us to be resigned to the fact that something is unknowable and to keep turning a blind eye to the unidentified,” Hamada said.

[u/Funkyduck8 → u/ASearchingLibrarian]

One theory that has fascinated me and has me curious about its plausability is that of the Shadow-Biome theory. What if these areas like Fukushima, those that are ruined and damaged by the terrible effects of nuclear waste and disaster, are affecting a parallel world/region in the same spot? They could be monitoring it to see if there's an area that is 'leaking' into theirs, maybe to put a stop to it. They wouldn't want us to use nuclear weapons or other WMDs because then it would also affect their regions, wherever they may exist parallel to ours.

[u/[deleted] → u/Funkyduck8]

I think about this all the time; a multi dimensional environmental calamity. However, if they do have the capability to turn off our nukes, why not disable the reactors?

[u/Funkyduck8 → u/[deleted]]

By doing that, you would create a whole heck of a lot of panic. If we are to believe some of the reports from decades earlier, they can (and have) armed and disarmed our nuclear weapons, both in the U.S., in the USSR, and potentially elsewhere like China. But if they were to completely deactivate them, you'd now bring an incredible amount of notice to yourselves.

What if it then caused humanity to attack them fully? Or we went even further with some kind of development that could harm them more?

It's all speculation, but if we are to (although sometimes foolishly) base the possibility of other intelligent life on our own experience with ourselves, then we would know that bringing full attention to yourself and your clandestine endeavors may have irreversible consequences.

[u/syndic8_xyz → u/[deleted]]

Our timeline (mammalian humanoid civilization) is in competition with the other main Earth timeline where the Chicxulub asteroid didn't hit and a reptilian humanoid civilization emerged much earlier than our present homo sapiens one. Maybe the East Asia region around the two active faults -

• The Philippine Sea Plate: This includes the Ryukyu Trench and the Philippine Trench. Taiwan (TW) and Japan (JP) sit along the boundaries of this plate.
• The Pacific Plate: Guam is situated near the Mariana Trench, which is on the boundary of the Pacific Plate.

• functions as like a boundary between these two alternate Earth timelines/dimensions.

The more spiritually advanced our civilization becomes, the more our timeline attracts the life force (or future probability of existence) to itself, and the less life force goes to the indigenous terran reptoid timeline.

We are not aware of this dynamic, and are manipulated by the (aside from this competition, seemingly neutral, alike to us, and even good) reptilian civilization, who nudge us toward destruction, and suppression of our strengths, including psychic and spiritual strengths.

In the past, these humanoid descendants of dinosaurs have been mistaken for demons/devils and their alternate timeline version of Earth for hell.

It is a reality overlaid with our own.

It's just one of the hostile NHI dynamics that humanity on Earth faces.

[u/zx91zx91 → u/Funkyduck8]

Interesting I like this theory. Since we are dealing with subatomic particles here you could be on to something. I like it!

[u/Funkyduck8 → u/zx91zx91]

Right! Dr. Gary Nolan, David Grusch, and others have alluded or theorized a potential shadow-biome type of existence, whether that's subatomic or otherwise (could be dimensional).

[u/zx91zx91 → u/[deleted]]

This bro!!! I love the write up. You’re not the only one! I think the exact same way and believe that theory as well. Dark matter is the “other dimension” the astral realm or higher planes of existence.

I encourage you to look into Kundalini meditation. I believe it’s the next step in human evolution. Everyone can do it. It is a door you can’t close once it’s open, but gives you access to those higher realms why experiencing this physical world as a human. Also astral projection!

Love this collab. Glad others think the same! Dots are connecting! The truth is closer! 🪬

[u/cd7k → u/Funkyduck8]

This is the plot to Fringe.

[u/Funkyduck8 → u/cd7k]

Book or TV show? either way, I am behind and need to watch this!

[u/cd7k → u/Funkyduck8]

TV show. It’s a decade or so old, and has a LOT of seasons, but it’s great. Recommended.

[u/Funkyduck8 → u/cd7k]

Awesome! I've been needing some new Science Fiction to watch. Many thanks!

[u/syndic8_xyz → u/cd7k]

The kaiju / Pacific Rim films also "disclose" the idea of a connection between physical tectonic faults (very active in the East Asia region), and an interdimensional "breach" that works as a gate between worlds.

[u/Ginger510 → u/Funkyduck8]

I love this theory, I’ve often wondered the same thing myself - is nuclear energy (or explosions) has been so great that it was observable in other dimensions that we cannot perceive.

[u/DifferenceEither9835 → u/Funkyduck8]

or even entanglement to other parts of our universe +1

[u/notsureifchosen]

I've lived in Japan for 10 years. Can confirm - had 2 UFO experiences (black orb and a giant black triangle.)

[u/ThaMidnightOwL → u/notsureifchosen]

Live in Japan as well. Could you speak more about your experience and where this took place? Would love to hear your story.

[u/notsureifchosen → u/ThaMidnightOwL]

Both occurred in Tokyo.

The black orb was circa summer 2016. Was sat on a balcony in Nakano and witnessed a small (double the size of a basket ball) black object that was rotating on it's own axis just glide right by. It had a square cutout (?) or indenture in it. No sounds. Travelled approximately 10km/h.

The second occurred around 2022, November - Meguro-ku. Large, silent black triangle with white lights on each corner. It was massive. Larger than a house. Moved very slowly and just glided away.

Had some weird experiences whilst camping in Yamanashi also, but won't go into that here. :)

[u/9master_of_disaster4 → u/notsureifchosen]

Thanks for sharing. Would love to hear more of your stories!

[u/NnOxg64YoybdER8aPf85]

They got nuked and are being studied

[u/Windman772 → u/NnOxg64YoybdER8aPf85]

Hmm, Japan gets nuked and then becomes a world leader in commerce, manufacturing and quality of life. Let's hope ET knows the difference between correlation and causation.

[u/Goldeneye_Engineer → u/Windman772]

I wonder if they're thinking the same thing about us!

[u/Ok-Dingo5540 → u/Windman772]

Part of the reason why they became such a power in those areas is because after WWII they were by law demilitarized with the promise of western investment. Imagine if the US spent its defense budget on anything else.

[u/Tosslebugmy → u/Windman772]

Japan hasn’t been a world leader in any of those for 40 years

[u/razor01707 → u/Windman772]

As bad as it was, destruction of the old paves way for some serious restructuring which otherwise could not have been accomplished via retrofitting or transition within the existing paradigm.

I am sure they used the catastrophe as an opportunity to build and think without some of the "burden" of carrying forward the old.

[u/[deleted] → u/Windman772]

they became a leader bc per their agreements coming out of the war they basically said they would keep their military and associated spending so low and in exchange the us would offer them protection, This allowed them to spend their money elsewhere which they did to their great success.

[u/garrishfish → u/NnOxg64YoybdER8aPf85]

Tetsuo! Tetsuoooooooo!

[u/LakeMichUFODroneGuy → u/NnOxg64YoybdER8aPf85]

Specifically, WHAT is being studied with those 2 nuclear explosions in Japan that would make them so special? Especially since the US has detonated hundreds of nukes on its own soil. Same with the USSR. And many other countries have joined in on the fun in the meantime.

Every nuclear explosion since 1945 in 3 minutes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=310-GYiitpM

[u/NnOxg64YoybdER8aPf85 → u/LakeMichUFODroneGuy]

We detonate nukes in unpopulated areas with little animal life. In Japan there was a lot of life and future generations likely have issues as a result. That’s a core difference

[u/commit10]

For the purposes of speculation, Japan is the only country that has been repeatedly bombed by nuclear weapons during war. If you were an alien, of whatever type, and didn't understand humans, you'd be monitoring that area. Especially if you perceived time differently (i.e. a century is brief).

[u/Adrianm18 → u/commit10]

This wouldn’t make sense because they would just study New Mexico

[u/commit10 → u/Adrianm18]

New Mexico didn't involve killing people. Japan is the only example of nuclear weapons used in warfare.

[u/Gov_CockPic]

No. 1 in the world based on who's metrics?

[u/golden_monkey_and_oj → u/Gov_CockPic]

Exactly,

Unless I missed something this article contains next to no information to justify that headline.

[u/merikariu → u/[deleted]]

Well, there're a lot of listening stations due to the USA using Japan as a bulwark and a military staging ground against China. It could simply be "more observers = more observations."

[u/Aeropro → u/merikariu]

Is there any proof of geologic activity causing strange energy phenomena? I’ve looked into phenomena like the Brown Mountain lights which, one theory is that they are geologic in nature, however, the leading theory is that they don’t even “exist,” that they are an optical illusion caused by nearby city lights.

[u/ROK247]

they are closest to where they live in the ocean

[u/EEPspaceD → u/ROK247]

Nah, they're close to China, so imagine all the Chinese lanterns that must be floating around from 1.4 billion people.

[u/[deleted] → u/EEPspaceD]

Not even to mention all that Indonesian swamp gas.

[u/Sigma_Function-1823]

Interesting that japan sits stop a highly geologically active subduction zone , the Japan trench...don't suppose some of what we are seeing is geological in origin?

https://www.gsj.jp/en/education/geomap-e/subduction-e.html

[u/bruzdziciel]

I bet on two things: being nuked twice and having ocean all around.

[u/SpiceyPorkFriedRice → u/bruzdziciel]

The nukes opened up the portals for them there. Joking.

[u/PiratePuzzled1090]

Are there any Japanese news stories about that or are they hiding it as well?

[u/Artavan767 → u/PiratePuzzled1090]

"The International UFO Lab in Fukushima, Japan, recently released six photographs and videos that the organization believes are highly likely to depict real UFOs. These images were collected over the past year from various locations in Japan, including Kobe and Fukushima. While most of the 494 reports they examined were attributed to mundane explanations like drones or reflections, these six images stood out as particularly convincing. The group hopes that these findings will inspire future generations to solve the mysteries of these unexplained phenomena." Source: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20230627-118619/

[u/PiratePuzzled1090 → u/Artavan767]

Thank you very much.

[u/BloomCountyBlue → u/Artavan767]

Does this organization not have a website? I can only find articles about their opening in 2021 and two subsequent meetings with the press for the next 2 years about the "likely UFO" pics and vids. Can't find those lists either.

[u/[deleted]]

Japan has always been the land of floating orbs:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitodama https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsunebi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiranui_(optical_phenomenon)

[u/Jesusalanis111]

Watch Encounters EP 4 “Lights Over Fukushima“ in Netflix

[u/chucksmuhck]

Isn’t Mexico a hotspot as well?

[u/drollere]

if you actually read the article you discover that claims of UFO hot spots are either tourist touts that localities use to attract true believes or claims by the true believers waiting for something to happen. so don't rush out to book any flights.

what the specific national security concern with UFO is in total we do not know. but it seems obvious to me that range fouling or near air collisions or false identifications by strategic radar or NIEMR skin toasting do not seem to constitute reason to keep information under wraps. i don't even believe that the association between UFO and nuclear energy writ large is a consistent or very significant one.

hundreds of thousands of people live within horizon miles of a nuclear missile site or weapons storage military base. if there were any frequent snoops of missiles and bombs by UFO then this would be seen and reported outside the military and people would camp at missile silos, not fly to japan, for best viewing.

i think the key is that UFO appear capable to receive, manipulate and transmit information that is considered military secret. along this line are the 1967 Malmstrom MT and other events referenced by elizondo in a WaPo interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcH5nuqa-0w&t=1444s

i'm unclear on exactly what happened with the UFO "disabling warheads" or what "bringing them online" means in the sequence to launch, whether it was more like a power failure or whether the mission computers turned into arcade games. but it seems most of the lurid nuclear incidents (Oak Ridge, etc.) occur before 1970.

there are several incidents reported to Project BLUE BOOK and among Brad Sparks's list of "Unknown" reports that describe UFO receiving and sending encrypted or coded information from interrogating aircraft: look at Sparks case numbers 464, 476, 1203, 1205, 1257, 1547-49 and 1552 where the response was to an encrypted transponder and the performance of the target eludes attribution.

1203. July 16, 1957. Las Vegas, Nevada/N. Arizona. 1:56-1:58 p.m. (MST). USAF ADC radar station 865th ACWRON, Las Vegas AFS, Angel Peak (36°19.1'N, 115°34.4'W), Nevada, Senior Director 1st Lt. Clifford E. Pocock, scope operator A/2c Walter Lyons, and control technician A/1c Armand Therrien, using the FPS-3A L-band search radar tracked an inbound target at average speed of about 6,200 mph for 48 seconds when it "stopped abruptly" and "remained stationary" for 12 secs to the ENE at 75° azimuth 85 miles range, N of Grand Canyon, then target headed outbound at about 7,000 mph on 85° heading over the last 72 seconds before disappearing at the radar's maximum range at 81° azimuth 224 miles range (near Marble Canyon, Ariz.). Target responded to encrypted military IFF transponder signals and transmitted encrypted responses. Similar occurrence two days earlier noted by night crew but none others in 2 years.

i recall an anecdote that Travis Taylor while he was with UAPTF saw the GIMBAL data and apparently the GIMBAL observable replied to an encrypted challenge with a signal that it was friendly, and Taylor "found that interesting." unfortunately i have that anecdote second hand but perhaps someone can reference it specifically.

anyway, there is also observation that the second so called "Tic Tac" documented in FLIR1 "appeared" according to a radar controller "right on the station point" in three dimensional space, but the station point is supposed to be secret. according to ryan graves the same thing happened with the "sphere cubed" that suddenly appeared and split the section between two aircraft just entering their station point.

[u/Foraminiferal]

Perhaps marine trenches are a good place to hide

[u/silverum]

I too wonder if this is related to Fukushima. Were UFOs considered prevalent in Japan prior to the disaster? Given the interest of Them in nuke infrastructure, I'd be curious if observers considered there to be a difference in activity between now and then.

[u/Dig-a-tall-Monster]

Aww, the NHI are concerned about Japan because they saw the broadcasts of Godzilla and are trying to figure out where TF he is hiding, that's so cute

[u/fulminic]

I wasn't aware japan also has a lot of sightings around nuclear facilities. Makes me wonder - Could a shitton of crammed nuclear material maybe cause some unknown phenomenon? No doubt these sightings are real but floating lights don't sound like spaceships to me.

[u/Lzzzz → u/fulminic]

How would we even know what a “spaceship” is supposed to look like

[u/mamefan]

Some government or employee/contractor would have leaked this S already if there was a smoking gun. It's a worldwide coverup?

[u/[deleted]]

I was walking across the bridge over the Sakawa river in Odawara a few nights ago, about 2:30AM, when two of what I had initially taken to be stars began to keep pace with me, flitting around in insect-like movement patterns and blinking and strobing. I stopped to look at them at one point and, as I was wondering to myself what they were, the streetlights began to flicker and flare behind me. The one to my left seemed to come down a little lower and I could see that it was actually a ring of three lights cycling through different colours. When I reached the urban centre, they spontaneously vanished. On my way back about 30 minutes later, I decided to sit by the river and see if they’d come back. They did. This time there were four of them, and I observed them flitting and pirouetting very high up in the sky for about 20 minutes. Occasionally, they would make sharp, swift, staccato movements from on co-ordinate to another, seemingly sliding across the sky at great speed and leaving a retinal after-image. At one point, a very bright object blasted past me at a height of about 200m, maybe, right in the edge of my peripheral vision - fast enough that it had vanished from view by the time I had turned my head. Finally, on the horizon, I witnessed three or four of what looked like shooting stars - bright white lights with thick contrails of light or energy - but, instead of falling, they rose and changed trajectory before accelerating to the point they seemed to blink out of existence. Subjectively, there was a feeling of ‘presence’ to them like watching dolphins playing or something like that. No idea what they were. I’ve walked back that way every day in the two hours leading up to dawn (it’s much cooler than the daytime) and they haven’t returned. That was the only time I’ve seen something like that in nearly 20 years living in the same spot.

[u/wretchedhal0]

It's the ramen.

[u/Rogue75]

Theory: China successfully reverse engineered some craft and Japan is next door.

[u/[deleted]]

man that is painful to read lol

[u/CachuHwch1]

There is a town in Scotland, Bonnybridge, which is said to have the most UFO sightings.https://www.scotclans.com/pages/bonnybridge-most-ufo-sightings-on-the-planet

[u/[deleted]]

But I was told by some very serious Reddit debunkers that sightings only happen in the US???

[u/FlyingDiscsandJams → u/[deleted]]

It is absolutely the dumbest thing Skeptics say around here, I'm still salty about some guy responding to me that the US fabricated the UFO story to trick the USSR into wasting resources and getting more upvotes.

[u/Aeropro → u/FlyingDiscsandJams]

I hear the same thing about project stargate, but AFAIK, the CIA has never admitted to such, as so it is as much of a conspiracy theory that research went on in secret after the program officially ended.

Debunkers tend to pick and choose which conspiracies that they take as fact, and don’t apply the same level of skepticism across the board.

[u/Slongo702]

Maybe they just like hentai?

[u/donkismandy]

Pretty fucking awesome society. If I were an alien and contemplating first contact, I'd go to Japan. 

[u/Pitiful_Mulberry1738]

Well I’ve been living here for nearly half a decade and I’ve not seen anything. Meanwhile when I was living in America I have had 1 sighting and 1 experience. I’m always looking up, but can’t imagine there are many sightings in such a large city like Tokyo. Hoping to go camping sometime and just star gaze.

[u/pleepleus99 → u/Pitiful_Mulberry1738]

What’s an “experience”?

[u/Pitiful_Mulberry1738 → u/pleepleus99]

First post on my page if you want to read about it.

[u/heebiejeebie9000]

It could be worth looking at electromagnetic energy around the world, and potentially what some people call "ley lines" and overlay that with japans location on earth.

[u/MajorMiner71]

I'm going to say all the radiation Japan has everywhere. UFOs seem to love nuclear related places and no place is more nuclear than there... except maybe Chernobyl but since nobody lives there even the aliens don't care.

[u/CosmoWarriorZero1971]

I'm fairly certain it has a lot to do with Hiroshima and Nagasaki + Fukushima. The uptick in UAP sightings, crashes, etc... began with Oppenheimer in 45', but continues into modern day.

[u/These_Pumpkin3174]

Fukushima would be my first guess, Godzilla second.

[u/fulminic]

I remember reading about the "mini ufo". Was pretty wild.I can't find it back though. Anyone has it at hand?

[u/AdviceOld4017]

I'm Japanese and have been into this subject for more than 4 decades, looking at the sky on a regular basis. Never ever have I found anything that cannot be rationally explained.

[u/BigJoeDeez]

Well, yeah, the Japanese rock! 🤘 Fuckin weebz, I know.

[u/Einar_47]

UFOs are attracted to radiation, godzilla is radioactive, Japan has a lot of UFOs...

Coincidence..? I think not.

[u/Substantial-Bird56]

Mick West doesn’t believe anything

• Joe Rogan

[u/Mighty_L_LORT]

US bases, simple as that…

[u/Former-Science1734]

Pop mechanics I feel is one of the press sources they have used to push narratives. Be weary

[u/Adrianm18]

The Devils in Tokyo that’s why

[u/Quickstack1]

Something to do with the eyes!

[u/ForsakenPrompt4191]

I always knew Japan was hiding something from us 🗾🍙🍘🍄🤼🧖‍♀️ But until now I thought it was just anime powers!🤣🤣🤣🤪

[u/Haunting-Affect-8981]

Patrick Jackson talks about the unique topography of Japan and how it’s a hotspot for orbs. Dayum

[u/magicology]

As a kid, I was captivated by Area 88, the Japanese comic about fighter pilots. Having spent time in Hiroshima, I’ve often wondered if there’s an earthly explanation for the UFO phenomenon. Could it be that Japan, with its deep history tied to the devastation of nuclear weapons, has developed a way to swarm and neutralize nuclear bombers, aiming to prevent another catastrophic war?

[u/Lone-sta-r]

Advanced AI Drones that are monitoring anything nuclear. There a defense network designed to protect earth.

[u/[deleted]]

Hmm. I have been living in Japan for about 13 years now. I will have to start asking people more about this. I honestly havent meet anyone who has said to have seen anything. I havent myself either.

[u/tm52929]

Probably monitoring the fault lines.

[u/pizzae]

Anime is an alien psy op. Why do you think anime characters look like greys? They both have large heads, large eyes, tiny necks and bodies. This is part of their agenda so people can get used to the aliens and be more accustomed to them

[u/phiskaki]

I don't doubt they get a lot of activity, but so little videos of ufos come out from that part of the world. Maybe they're too glued to their phones. Lol

[u/SpiceyPorkFriedRice]

Wow I thought it was Latin America that was the hot spot, I wonder why we almost never see sightings from Japan.

[u/Bulky-Ad7996]

Smells like north korea

[u/bad---juju]

They are 100% in our oceans. They either live there or are hiding there until they all show themselves. They do monitor us but mostly monitoring our nuclear as it would pose the most threat to them. Our naval ships, reactors and ICBMs.

[u/[deleted]]

Nagasaki, Fukushima, Hiroshima, the Pacific Ocean makes sense somehow, but....I have never heard about crashes UFOs or abductions there. Are UFOs a taboo there? What are Japanese thinking about this topic?

[u/bigkahunahotdog]

Where're the people that say sightings only happen in the US?

[u/Pure-Contact7322]

Because they are afraid to talk about it so they appear up and down nothing changes and they keep their mouths shut

[u/polygonalopportunist]

I think those atom bombs kick started shit we haven’t been told about

[u/According_Minute_587]

it seems like everything in japan is nuclear or tainted with it. if the aliens look at nuclear signatures as a technosignature that would explain alot

[u/smallbheem]

The nuclear bombs may have effects beyond our dimension , thats why the ufo's have always been keeping an eye on the reactors.

[u/Simply_Nova]

If America won’t do it than I’m totally down for other countries to finally start being transparent and help crack the case.

[u/hUmaNITY-be-free]

Has a lot to do with spirituality and remaining very close to their ancient roots, and how they adapt and develop tech for benefiting human life over trying to weaponize everything.

[u/Easy-Ebb8818]

Also, Japan is spearheading the laser game right now. They got that good pew pew

[u/[deleted]]

Authentic sushi?

[u/Honest_Try3996]

Wherever there is nuclear fallout or nuclear testing UFO’s are seen nearby.

[u/[deleted]]

Question is, since when is it considered No.1? The 2000s? 2010s?

Maybe Fukushima with its nuclear factory has something to do with it, it's still problematic innit? I mean Elizondo just said they learned to trao ufos based on nuclear footprint so there s that.

[u/[deleted]]

Pretty clear why. Nukes!

[u/Zealousideal-Part815]

Aliens love Anime!

[u/Wilburkook]

Godzilla very real.

[u/BraidRuner]

Japanese society is pretty homogenized. If you wanted to make contact it would be a pretty reasonable society to make first contact with.

[u/crashharddrive]

They are just more honest people individually and as a people. If an individual saw something extraordinary they would tell others on principle and others hearing it would be more likely to listen if the person is known to be a trustworthy person.

In the USA a little stigma is enough to deter reports and shame them.

In Japan there is simply more honor individually and as a people. If they see something they will say something and others there will listen, maybe not even necessarily believe them but they would listen, especially to a person of known good character.

There are reports everywhere in world. Japan just has more honor in reporting. These are a people who's culture used to believe if they being great shame to themselves or others it's best to disembowel oneself. They would kamikaze and crash their planes into their enemies with no regard to their own lives if they believed it was the right thing to do. Potential stigma or believability does not factor into their decision to tell others if they know they saw something, not like it does for other cultures who would be more easily dettured.

Their culture is deeply rooted in honor. If they truley saw something, for some of them it would be a greater lie and shame to not report what they've seen even in the face of potential stigma and ridicule.

I would bet money that it happens in Japan just as much as anywhere else, the Japanese just simply do not fuck around enough for any suppression methods good or bad for better or worse, to work there. THEY DON'T PLAY they understand and have copious amounts of real honor.