A UFO has supposedly been sighted in Japan as a mysterious white object hovered over skies in Japan before disappearing into a puff of smoke.
The appearance of a mysterious white object in the sky over northern Japan on Wednesday set social media ablaze, with speculation ranging from UFOs to coronavirus and North Korean propaganda. Television footage taken in the northeastern city of Sendai showed a balloon-like object above a cross, on which propellers seemed to be turning. Officials in the Sendai Weather Bureau said it had appeared near dawn and hung in the sky for hours, largely unmoving, until obscured by clouds.
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By the afternoon it was the third-most trending topic on Japanese Twitter, with theories including UFOs and North Korean balloons used to drop leaflets.
One user said it could be spreading novel coronavirus, adding, “This gives me a very bad feeling, as if Godzilla might suddenly appear.”
Police could not be immediately reached for comment.
A Sendai government official said inquiries were still proceeding, with both the size of the object and its origin, as well as its function, undetermined.
No move had been made to retrieve it as of late afternoon.
A weather bureau spokesman said: “We have absolutely no idea what it is.
“It may be some kind of weather monitoring equipment, but it definitely isn’t ours.”
The mysterious sighting comes just two months after the Pentagon released three declassified videos taken by US Navy pilots that show “unidentified aerial phenomena”.
The US President wondered if the footage is real as he called it ‘a hell of a video’.
The videos included the famous ‘Tic Tac’ clip, shot by pilot Chad Underwood in 2004.
President Trump told Reuters: “I just wonder if it’s real.
The clips show three separate incidents involving “unidentified aerial phenomena,” one from November 2004 and two from January 2015.
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President Trump said just a year ago he doesn’t believe in the existence of UFOs.
He told George Stephanopoulos in an ABC News interview: “They do say, and I’ve seen, and I’ve read, and I’ve heard, and I did have one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they’re seeing UFOs.
“Do I believe it? Not particularly.”
A Department of Defense spokesperson said in a statement Monday: “The US Navy previously acknowledged that these videos circulating in the public domain were indeed Navy videos.
“DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.
“The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.'”
Sourse: www.express.co.uk
