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ALIENS

An image taken from video of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 jet crew’s encounter with an unexplained anomalous phenomena
WORLD / Politics
Mar 9, 2024
Pentagon review finds no evidence of alien cover-up
But the new report suggests that the public’s belief that the government is hiding what it knows will probably continue.
David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Office representative on the Defense Department's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, testifies during a House subcommittee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington last July.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 13, 2024
UFOs remain a mystery to lawmakers after classified briefing
Members of the House went into a confidential briefing hoping for answers about what the government knows about alien life. They emerged with more questions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 21, 2023
UFO sightings put rural Japanese community on the intergalactic map
Residents of Iinomachi believe they live in a UFO hot spot and speak of repeated appearances of unknown luminous flying objects.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 26, 2023
U.S. government has been dancing around UFOs for 75 years
A legacy of UFO hype, hysteria and fraud is undermining legitimate inquiry into those strange objects in the sky.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 13, 2023
Ruling out aliens? Senior U.S. general says not ruling out anything yet
Recent incidents come as the Pentagon has undertaken a new push to investigate military sightings of unidentified objects.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 18, 2022
UFO sightings aren’t for ‘kooks’ anymore, U.S. lawmaker says
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday held the first congressional hearing into UFOs since the 1960s.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 26, 2021
UFO sighting stigma is gone as U.S. urges pilots to speak up
The Director of National Intelligence said in the findings released Friday that pilots will be encouraged to report 'unexplained aerial phenomena.”
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Jun 21, 2021
The truth is out there: UFO research site set to open in Fukushima
The research facility will analyze witness reports, plan events to lure UFOs to Fukushima Prefecture and create a network of researchers at home and abroad.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 20, 2019
UFO enthusiasts prepare to 'storm' Nevada's Area 51 in search of alien secrets
Scores of UFO enthusiasts converged on rural Nevada on Thursday for a pilgrimage of sorts to the U.S. installation known as Area 51, long rumored to house government secrets about alien life, as law enforcement officials beefed up security around the military base.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2019
What we get wrong about UFOs
Beware of interpretations posing as facts. And when explanations are incomplete, don't fall for the fallacy of 'god of the gaps.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 7, 2019
Are the aliens among us?
An uptick in UFO sightings by military pilots raises all sorts of interesting questions.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Nov 11, 2017
Deep thoughts
'It surprises me to think that humans will be able to communicate with aliens from outer space when they can't even talk to animals on Earth.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 2, 2017
Life here, there and everywhere in the universe
Maybe only one planet in a million has intelligent life, you say? Okay, then there are at least 140 million planets with intelligent life in this galaxy alone.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jul 3, 2016
China eyes hunt for alien life with giant radio telescope
China on Sunday hoisted the final piece into position on what will be the world's largest radio telescope, which it will use to explore space and help in the hunt for extraterrestrial life, state media said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 27, 2016
Miwa Komatsu: 'It's absurd to accomplish anything by yourself'
Nagano painter on peace, purity and cultural influences worldwide
Japan Times
WORLD
May 9, 2014
Sleepy New Mexico town gears up for commercial launches as Spaceport America's moment of truth nears
After passing a sign reading, "Danger: falling aliens," New Mexico artist Roy Lohr and his dog, Yoda, lead visitors to the "spaceport" he has built in his backyard out of wine bottles and cement.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 27, 2014
New Mexico dig uncovers 'E.T.' video games buried after 1980s flop
Documentary filmmakers digging in a New Mexico landfill on Saturday unearthed hundreds of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" cartridges. The game was considered by some to be the worst video game ever made; it was blamed for contributing to the downfall of the video game industry in the 1980s.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 5, 2013
Congressional committee ponders aliens — the space kind
Lawmakers held a free-ranging and sometimes bewildering hearing Wednesday on the search for extraterrestrial life, gradually working around to the question of whether humans are alone in the universe. At the end of the 90-minute session, that issue remained unresolved.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 25, 2013
With planets easy to find, astronomer sets sights on alien spacecraft
In the field of planet hunting, Geoff Marcy is a star. After all, the astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley found nearly three-quarters of the first 100 planets discovered outside our solar system. But with the hobbled planet-hunting Kepler telescope having just about reached the end of its useful life and reams of data from the mission still left uninvestigated, Marcy began looking in June for more than just new planets. He is sifting through the data to find alien spacecraft passing in front of distant stars.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tokyo issues strong warning on yen intervention as currency dips further
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on the sidelines of IMF and G20 meetings in Washington last week.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.
North Korean animators may be involved in Japan anime production, report says
North Korean animators may be involved in the production of some Japanese and U.S. animated shows, according to a report by a website providing analysis on North Korea.
BOJ to hold rates with focus on hawkish signals to buoy yen
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda hasn’t ruled out responding to exchange rates with a policy move if the impact on prices is seen to be "non-negligible.”
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tsukiji 2030s: A stadium, culinary center and transportation hub
A computer-generated image shows redevelopment plans for the former site of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time
Toshihiro Kinjo (center), a research support technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, inspects an audio recording device in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3 as Masako Ogasawara, a research support specialist at OIST, looks on.

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Longform

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