In today's episode of American Alchemy,
we make history yet again by
interviewing our second defense minister
to take UFOs seriously on record. Yasu
Kazu Hamada, one of the most important
defense ministers in Japanese history.
He admits that aliens visiting Earth is
a viable hypothesis to explain
consistent UFO activity around the
world. We should also consider it a
strong hypothesis and take it seriously.
[music] I believe
>> we also speak to former congressman
Yoshiharu Asakawa who helped form
Japan's UAP caucus [music]
has had multiple UFO experiences himself
that he goes into detail here. [music]
the light rather than shining it was
more like a bright like a really bright
cloud
and he's become a lighthouse for
witnesses and experiencers across Japan.
One of those witnesses says that they
can regularly call in UFOs like you
would call an Uber.
>> They possess their own personal UFO
which they can board whenever they
desire. And then we speak to Teruo
Manobi, a sitting congressman and the
current secretary general of the UAP
caucus.
>> Over at the Genkai nuclear plant in
Kyushu, an unidentified flying object
showed up and really getting to the
bottom of it all actually ties directly
into Japan's national security.
>> We also hear from Tekashi Endo, a direct
adviser [music] to Japan's prime
minister.
>> We still don't know whether this was
deliberately covered up. And finally,
there's Atsushi Hayasaka, another former
congressman who believes that he may
have been left with an implant behind
his ear. After an encounter with unknown
beings, [snorts]
>> she pointed out that I had a mark right
behind my ear, and I went to have an
X-ray taken. They told me that there
[music] was a dark shadow visible in
that area. It was somewhat square in its
shape.
>> Square.
You heard me right. This episode starts
with an unprecedented testimony around
UFOs from the most important defense
minister in living history. And it ends
with a Japanese politician who thinks
that he may be carrying a physical
artifact from a possible alien
abduction. Along the way, we cover
shape-shifting black cube UFOs.
>> I saw four distinct cube- shaped [music]
messes fused together,
>> nuclear accidents, and an alleged CIA
plot to bring down a Japanese prime
minister. It almost feels like you're
being guided by non-human intelligence
[music] yourself.
So, come learn about Japan's long
relationship with UFOs [music] and the
brave politicians chasing them
>> with this week's distinguished Japanese
alchemists.
>> Ignition sequence.
>> How [music] is this possible?
>> Nothing too unusual about that.
>> [music]
>> Their existence cannot longer be denied.
It's an honor to be with the former
defense minister Hamadasan who is the
first defense minister to publicly
discuss UAPs in front of parliament but
also in front of the nation. Thank you
so much for being here today.
You have really helped spearhead the
Japanese UAP caucus. What are the
primary intentions and goals of the
organization?
for Hamada. Japanese preparedness and
security is paramount. In 2022, as
defense minister, Hamada broke with a
posture Japan had held since the end of
World War II. You see, after the war,
America essentially wrote Japan's
Constitution, one that renounced all
conflict and stationed American troops
on its soil that are still there today.
For decades, defense spending was capped
at 1% of GDP. No offensive weapons were
allowed, no ability to strike [music] an
enemy's territory ever. Hamada ended
that. He oversaw the biggest
transformation of Japanese defense
policy since [music] 1945, a new
national security strategy, naming China
as an unprecedented strategic challenge,
a commitment to double defense spending,
and for the first time in the post-war
era, Counterstrike capability.
This is arguably the most consequential
defense official in modern Japanese
history. A man whose entire career has
been about identifying real threats in
building institutions to meet them. And
of everything he could be doing with his
standing and his remaining political
capital, he chose to chair the UAP
caucus. People like Hamada don't do that
for fun. They do it when they've
concluded something is there.
You mentioned that you personally have
never seen a UAP. Do you know anybody
who's seen UAP?
Did [music] you catch the word he used
when I asked if he'd ever seen a UFO
himself? He said that unfortunately
[music] he never has. unfortunately,
which I thought was an interesting way
to put it, as if his aspiration was to
see one, he did tell me [music] that
many people have brought him their
accounts over the years. And there's one
recent case that [music] kept coming up
in my conversations in Japan. In 2025,
something very strange and interesting
happened at the Genkai nuclear power
plant,
>> and it was basically the first
documented and recorded [clears throat]
UAP occurrence in Japan. What happened
there?
Here's exactly what happened. It's just
past 9:00 in the evening on July 26th,
2025. On the southernmost island of
Japan, Kiushu, the Genkai nuclear power
station sits along a stretch of [music]
coastline in the Saga Prefecture. Four
reactors standing against the black
water of the Genkai Sea. The guards
stationed at the main gate are minding
their own business. It's not exactly a
busy time of day. This is also one of
the most protected places in the entire
country where even the airspace above is
closed off by law. Nothing is supposed
to be up there, but then suddenly three
lights appear in the sky. They don't
slowly pass overhead the way an aircraft
would. They hold their position, and
then they begin to move, tracing a long
loop over the grounds of the power
station, an ellipse almost a half a mile
wide. They keep circling, drifting
closer, almost as if they're monitoring,
until they're right over the facility
itself. They are now no more than 150 ft
from two of the reactors. For two whole
hours, the guards and a stationed police
officer watch these three lights turn
slow circles over the reactors.
They're stunned. They're just hovering
with no visible propulsion or exhaust.
Sometime after midnight, they simply
disappear. No security camera ever
caught a clear image of them. or at
least that's what we're being told. And
there were reports that a minor
earthquake had rolled through the region
only a half hour before they appeared.
What happened next probably won't
surprise you. The story almost
immediately began to fall apart. The
nuclear authority put out an emergency
notice calling them three drones. Men
[music] walked it back. Not drones, it
said just lights. Weeks [music] passed
and eventually the police arrived at the
most reassuring explanation available to
them. that the guards at one of the
nation's most secure installations
trained to [music] watch the sky had
most likely mistaken a passing aircraft
circling in the dark. An aircraft in
restricted airspace. Case closed despite
the cover story changing three times.
You see, Kushi Electric's own records
from that night don't square with the
simple explanation of a plane at all.
The questions started to pour in from
sitting members of the Japanese
Parliament, eventually reaching the
highest levels of government, the
cabinet.
And this isn't the first time UFOs have
shown up over a Japanese nuclear plant.
In 2011, as the Fukushima Dichi nuclear
reactor melted down, people nearby
filmed unknown lights moving above the
reactors. A local Buddhist monk said
that he believed these UFOs had come to
hold the radiation back. They were a
cosmic cleanup crew. Steven Spielberg's
production company even made a whole
Netflix documentary about the saga. Now,
if you know anything at all about this
subject, you shouldn't be surprised
because UFOs around nuclear sites might
be the single most repeated pattern in
the entire history of this phenomenon.
From Malmstrom to FE Warren to Savannah
Riveright to Minina to Vandenberg,
essentially every major nuclear base in
the United States, not to mention bases
in the United Kingdom [music] and former
Soviet Union have all seen frequent
UFOs. And these nuclearbased UFO
sightings go all the way back to 1945.
In some cases, they've even tampered
with the nuclear weapons themselves.
Members of Japan's parliamentary UAP
caucus weren't satisfied with the
official explanation given to the lights
at Genkai. So they went there
themselves, inspected the site, and came
away saying that an aircraft made no
sense at all. The man who spearheaded
that investigation was Yoshiharu
Asakawa.
To some, he is known simply as the UFO
politician.
He stood up in parliament [music] and
started asking the questions nobody else
would touch. His own party told him to
stop. His colleagues [music] froze him
out. He kept going anyway. He has faced
ridicule but has stayed the course
[music] and has amassed a league of
allies, experiencers, and witnesses who
have become personal friends and
desperately [music] want to see Japanese
UFO disclosure. Asakawa has questioned
defense ministers directly on the floor
of the parliament and flown to Mexico
City to testify [music] under oath
before their congress. He is the reason
the UAP Parliamentary League exists at
all. He also is a witness to multiple
UFOs, taking us to the very first spots
he saw these unknown flying objects as a
child.
Hey,ch.
[music]
[music]
>> [music]
>> But to understand why a man like this
ended up pouring his whole career into
UFOs, you have to go back almost 40
years to the case he says changed
everything. And here's the thing, it
wasn't what he saw in the sky that got
him. It was what happened afterward.
November 17th, 1986, Japan Airlines
flight 1628, a Boeing 747 hauling cargo
[music] over Alaska. And the captain,
Kenju Tarachi, was not some hobbyist
squinting at the stars. This was a
former fighter [music] pilot with almost
30 years in the air. Partway through the
flight, he reports these brilliantly lit
objects [music] moving around his
aircraft.
And then something much bigger shows up
alongside them. He later said it was so
enormous that it was the size of two
aircraft carriers shaped like a walnut
hanging there in the night sky next to
his plane for 50 whole minutes.
His crew saw the lights too. Air traffic
control was on the line the whole time.
And this is the part that lifts it above
your average sighting. The encounter
generated radar returns [music] picked
up both by civilian and military systems
on the ground. This wasn't one guy
describing a line in the distance. It
became one of the most thoroughly
documented aviation UFO cases in modern
history. So, the FAA or the Federal
Aviation Administration opens an
investigation. And years later, the man
who was running the FAA's accidents and
investigations division at the time, a
guy named John Callahan, comes forward
and says the case was walked into a
classified briefing with the CIA, the
FBI, and other agencies in [music] the
room. And according to Callahan, when it
was over, they took the data and they
told everyone present that the meeting
never happened. Callahan says he quietly
kept his own copies. He thought that
truths involving the nature of reality
shouldn't be confined to the [music]
government. And after he retired, he
published them. And I've had a former
NASA physicist on my show analyze them
and tell me directly that they indicate
an anomalous object flying [music]
around this Japan Airlines plane. From
that radar data, it's accelerated at
10,000 gs, 250,000 mph. and and you can
actually see the position of the plane
on the radar. And at the one point where
the plane actually does a 360 to try to
shake this thing, you can actually see
that on the radar. So, the radar is
working.
>> And Captain Tarachi, the decorated
veteran who reported exactly what he and
his crew saw as was his duty. He got
pulled off international routes and
parked [music] behind a desk. A
humiliating demotion.
Now in the UFO world, JAL1628
sits in the same tier as Rendlessham as
the Nimtt's tic tac as Tehron.
The cases with trained witnesses, real
investigations, and evidence that goes
beyond one person's word. But here's why
it matters for our story. Asakawa was a
teenager when this happened and he
watched one of the most extraordinary
aviation encounters in history quietly
get turned [music] into a lesson about
power. A Japanese crew, a Japanese
aircraft
and an investigation that ran through
Washington. So that by the time the
[music] Japanese public got their
answer, a lot of people felt the
conclusion had been written somewhere
else long before.
Do you think that the United States has
a right to dictate whether the Japanese
government can share data with their own
population about the nature of reality,
which seems like a fundamental truth?
If you had to guess, what do you think
is known at the highest levels of
Japanese government when it comes to
UAP?
America.
Hearing will come to order.
>> In 2023, the all domain anomalies
resolution office, the Pentagon's own
UFO Investigations Unit, released an
assessment identifying the hot spots
around the world where these objects
turn up time and time again. The
corridor running from western Japan
toward China was on that list, flagged
on data going all the way back to 1996.
So according [music] to the Pentagon's
own analysis, the skies over Japan are
some of the most active for this
phenomenon anywhere on the planet. I
want to talk about the origin story of
the UAP caucus because I believe you
guys were together on the national
security committee. Touo Manobi is a
sitting member of Japan's House of
Representatives from Osaka. He's also
the current secretary general of the UAP
caucus. [music]
So
you
when Trump started posting openly about
UFO disclosure, it landed differently.
in Japan. Askawa told me that Hamada,
who he thinks knows more than he is
letting on about UFOs, was very excited.
After years of non-answers and
gaslighting, suddenly Washington was
promising to open the UFO files, and
Japan would move in step.
>> I think we're going to be releasing as
much as we can in the near future for
some reason, and I guess it's just a
reason that's been in the minds of
people for a long time. foreign.
Oh,ch.
Yesterday you were telling us about one
of your incredible sightings as a child
and we got interrupted. Can you just
tell that story one more time? Not the
elementary school, the other story.
>> [music]
>> You don't
>> [music]
>> This is an unusual description for a
UFO. Oh, but it's not one without
precedent.
One of the first people I thought of was
former Navy pilot Ryan Graves. Graves
has spoken publicly about pilots [music]
in his own squadron encountering what
they described as dark cubes enclosed
within transparent spheres. The object,
described as a dark gray or black cube
inside of a clear sphere, came within 50
ft of the lead aircraft and was
estimated to be 5 to 15 ft in diameter.
He says these weren't isolated
incidents. It got to the point where
asking who had encountered one in one of
his briefing rooms [music] would result
in half the room raising their hands.
Swedish UFO researcher [music] Claus
Swan has also documented floating
box-like objects.
>> When she [music]
drove the object to me, uh, it looks
like a box [music] with sharp edges and
big windows and a brim like a like a
hat. Wow. Perhaps all of these sightings
[music] connect to a more speculative
idea that we've explored throughout this
series. The concept of a
four-dimensional hyper [music] cube or
tesseract.
>> I cannot show you a tesseract because I
and you are [music] trapped in three
dimensions. But what I can show you is
the shadow in three dimensions.
>> The proposal isn't that people are
literally seeing tesseracts flying
around the sky. It's that if an object
from a higher dimensional space
intersected with our three-dimensional
world, [music] what we would perceive
might only be a partial cross-section of
something far more complex. Say [music]
this is, you know, you have a 2D
universe and this is a 3D object. If it
intersects, you're just going to see a
sliver of it. So, you'll just see a dip.
>> [music]
>> You were reading a little document
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UAP. Fore!
Foreign! Foreign!
Fore.
So, it sounds like this document is
using a very deliberate wording in order
to be kind of intentionally vague and
allow for actually foreign unknown
objects. Um, but I would take it a step
further as far as kind of the questions
that this beggets, which is the Pentagon
has officially said that Japan is a hot
spot when it comes to UAP activity. And
so if you have a document essentially
saying, you know, we haven't had any
officially documented cases of of UAP,
you know, even if it's sort of being
cheeky and allowing for some possible
cases, isn't there some basic
inconsistency there between the the take
on the US and then this this document? I
mean, even Hamadosand admitted that the
Pentagon believes that Japan is a hot
spot.
I don't know.
forchech.
for
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[music]
take a little journey with me here
Because what Asakawa just mentioned is a
pretty deep cut. And after this
interview, I dug even deeper and
uncovered some pretty crazy connections.
Washington, [music]
1975.
While Senator Frank Church was running a
committee that was dragging the CIA's
secrets into the daylight, he was also
quietly running a second investigation.
This one was into American corporations
bribing their way through the
governments of allied nations. And
sitting right at the center of it was
Lockied. Yes, that Lockied Skunk Works,
the U2, the SR71 Blackbird, the
contractors that UFO whistleblowers
David Grush and Jay Stratton say have
been holding on to recovered nonhuman
technology. Harry Reed said this uh you
know we knew that Loheed Martin had this
material for decades. I tried to get
access and I was denied and specifically
with the Loheed Martin stuff he was
talking about during the OSAP program. J
Stratton even names one of the Loheed
Martin vice presidents who apparently
was responsible for UFO reverse
engineering a man named Jim Ryder. If
you're in this world and you hear
locked, you think UFOs incorporated. In
February of 1976, the church
subcommittee revealed that this same
company had spent the better part of two
decades funneling millions of dollars in
secret payments to the most powerful men
in Japan. Which brings us to Kakoui
Tanaka, the most formidable Japanese
politician of his generation. And once
he became prime minister, he did
something Washington really did not
like. He started acting independently,
opening relations with China ahead of
the United States on Japan's own terms.
Then the locked money surfaced.
Prosecutors said that Tanaka had taken
500 million yen. And on the morning of
July 27th, 1976,
he became the first former prime
minister ever arrested in Japan.
The most independent leader postwar
Japan had produced was finished. And
when Japan's own government formally
asked Washington for the full list of
officials who' taken Loheed money, one
man stepped in to try to stop it. This
man was American Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger. And Henry Kissinger was
definitely, you know, doing a lot of
atomic stuff. In fact, he was also doing
Nazi uh tech retrieval stuff, too. He
was at Oberammer in Germany.
>> That's right. and you know before going
to Harvard actually and had intelligence
ties you know basically since his early
20s Kissinger warned that releasing the
names could do grave damage to America's
foreign relations and the full list was
never made public as a result where
things get wild is that longtime viewers
know that we did a whole episode on
Kissinger and his potential involvement
in the legacy UFO programs even
overseeing it. [music] In fact, the
widow of the former head of special
projects at Wright Patterson Air Force
Base, Dr. Eric Henry Wang, said that
Kissinger was overseeing his work.
[music] And who was assigned likely by
the CIA to hold back Kissinger? None
other than past [music] American
alchemist Harold Malgrren. The same
Harold Malgren who claimed to hold UFO
pieces in his hands. And the same Harold
Malgren whose closest mentor, Richard
Bissell, founded Area 51. [music] and
briefed him on other world technologies.
Besides being a direct aid to presidents
like [music] Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon,
and Ford, Malgren collaborated with the
highest levels of the Japanese
government. In fact, he was usually a
direct adviser to the prime minister
[music] himself. And the first prime
minister he advised, you might ask, none
other than Koui Tanaka. In fact,
Malmgrren was a personal friend of the
head of Japan's own National Security
Council. the national security chief for
for the Japanese prime minister was some
my buddy for years. [laughter]
>> Lynden Johnson had even sent Malgm on a
secret mission to Tokyo. No State
Department, no embassy, nobody read in
just a sealed envelope handd delivered
straight [music] to the prime minister's
secretary so that whatever was inside
would never exist on paper.
>> Here's the name of his personal
secretary. She would expect it. She will
tell them to give her the envelope. If
it comes
and you deliver it yourself,
they let you in the door. You hand over
the envelope. That's it. That's it.
>> When he finally walked out of the US
government in 1975, the same year the
locked dominoes started to fall, he
didn't leave Japan behind. He became one
of the highest paid American operators
working inside Japanese institutions. a
private line or back channel running
between Tokyo and Washington that stayed
open for years. So, the same person who
had been let in on these otherworldly
secrets, who I think was probably CIA,
was incredibly influential in Japan. And
Japan is one of the greatest UFO
hotspots on the entire planet. And both
he and Kissinger had access to the UFO
file, and both seem to be at odds with
each other. So, was Mongrin fighting
against Kissinger's methods of gaining
leverage over foreign countries? Was his
placement at the highest levels of
Japanese politics and at the highest
levels of UFOs just a coincidence? Or
could he have been back channeling on
that topic, [music] too? Remember, the
UFO pieces that Melgrren held in his
hands was from the Bluegill Triple
[music] Prime test. There's actually
footage of that test that seems to show
a UFO coming out of the plume of the
nuclear blast. And the Navy deck logs
associated with this Bluegill Triple
Prime test seem to indicate something
anomalous being retrieved. Don't listen
to me. Listen to the Navy's former chief
oceanographer, Tim Galedet.
>> Did you think that something anomalous
was recovered within the deck?
>> I do. I do.
>> Wow.
So if David Gush is right that the
United States has run a multi-deade
[music] program recovering craft that
aren't ours, then some of those
recoveries probably happened outside
American territory on the soil of allies
and partners. And if something comes
down in Japan and Washington wants it,
how does that actually work? You would
need people already inside that
country's political structure. [music]
You'd need relationships that predate
that emergency situation. You'd need
somebody that the prime minister's
office trusts enough to [music] take a
call at 3:00 in the morning and not ask
what the cargo is. So between Malgrren,
Kissinger, and Loheed all being involved
with UFOs and Japan being a UFO hotspot,
these are all loose threads, but they're
definitely ones worth pursuing. You are
probably as much of a lighthouse as
anyone else when it comes to the UAP
topic because you are the UFO
representative. So, I'm sure you hear
all sorts of stories from, you know,
random Japanese civilians and citizens
who want to, you know, let you know
about what happened to them. What's the
wildest story that you've heard?
No one is that someone has told me that
uh that person has some personal
always waiting for him
whenever he wants.
What type of music do you play?
[laughter]
>> Head binging. Really? I wasn't expecting
you to say that.
>> Hayasaka started out on the city council
of Sai up in Japan's northeast and in
2021 he won a seat in the House of
Representatives. His wife Chiaki has
made a career in politics, too.
>> [music]
>> And as you'll see, they're basically a
power couple and have both experienced
the paranormal. 30 years ago, on a
routine drive home, Hayasaka witnessed
something incredible.
What color and shape Was the UFO that
you saw?
[clears throat]
And then there's a gap. Total blackout.
But before the gap, he does remember
being unable to move.
And when it was over, there was a wound
behind his right ear that he'd never had
before. A wound that healed into a scar.
And years later, an X-ray showed a small
squarish shadow underneath it.
Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Do you know that that's a common spot
for people who have alien encounters to
get implants? Yeah. In fact, Whitley
Streamers, who's the most famous person
who's ever been, you know, encountered
aliens, he wrote a best-selling book in
the 1980s called Communion, and it's
kind of what, you know, popularized the
image of the gray alien. He has an
implant in his ear, and I've felt it.
>> Go ahead, touch it. Don't be scared.
Okay. Wait. Here. Here. Right under my
finger now.
>> Oh my god. So, you have a scar, but
there was no blood. And did you go test
it? Did you get it x-rayed or imaged in
any way?
But it was how big of a spot was it? Was
it was it perfectly circular? Was it
like a a blob that was hard to figure
out the edges of or what did it look
like exactly?
square like a small little square.
>> Yes.
>> How many like a centimeter or a
millimeter or
>> Have you ever tested it with a an you
know radio frequency detector or put a
magnet on it or anything like that?
It's interesting. Uh most of the people
who I've spoken to who have implants are
superstitious or not not superstitious.
They think that the implants serve a
purpose and they actually don't want to
take them out because they feel like
it's their connection maybe with the
beings and so it's very adaptive to keep
the the implants in. So it almost feels
like you might feel the same way. I
don't know.
Jiakisan also saw a UFO. Is that
correct?
Wow. But the exact same place,
like the same parking lot.
>> Wow. Of
>> of the parking lot.
>> And you you you remember were you with
your friends?
Wow. Did Did the UFOs that you both saw
look the same? And did those UFOs look
the same as your father-in-law, your
father?
UFO.
>> Have you guys seen any UFOs outside of
your preschool experience, the
experience in the car together? Anything
else? Or or seen any beings?
Fore!
Foreign! Foreign!
According
to Chiaki, Hayasaka's wife. The parking
lot where all of this happened, where
her husband lost those hours of his
life, was once the grounds of a temple.
In Japan, that detail carries a
different weight than it might
elsewhere. These encounters have a long
habit of happening on ground that people
at some point set aside as holy, strange
occurrences on sacred sites. Japanese
tradition has never drawn a hard line
between the sacred and the strange. The
same peaks people have prayed at for a
thousand years have seamlessly also
become the places people now go to watch
the sky. From Shinto and Buddhist
traditions to modern UFOs. Take Mount
Kurama in the hills [music] of North
Kyoto. It's the birthplace of Reiki, the
practice of energy healing. And for
centuries, it's been wrapped in legends
of the Tangu, the long-nosed goblins
[music] of Japanese folklore said to
live in its forests. Today, those same
forested ridges are one of the best
known UFO watching spots [music] in the
whole Kyoto region or go far to the
north to Mount Osori in Iomorei. A name
that translates roughly to Mount Fear.
It's a sulfur stained volcanic cdera
that folk believe has held for over a
thousand years to be an entrance to the
land of the dead. Every summer, blind
mediums called Itaco gather there to
channel the voices of the dead for the
pilgrims who make the climb.
And UFO watchers who go to the Osori
Festival consistently see lights in the
sky. They'll often tell you that with
all that spiritual energy concentrated
in one place across history, it would be
stranger if the lights didn't come. And
then there's a local legend that goes
beyond just a UFO hot spot, Mount
Kuramonta in Akita. It's a near perfect
conical peak. And a research team that
surveyed it back in the early 90s with
ground penetrating radar came away
arguing it might be an artificial
structure, possibly one of the oldest
pyramids on Earth. There's a
4,000-year-old stone circle a short walk
away aligned to the solstice sun. Which
brings me back to what Asakawa said
about his sighting when he was a boy,
about the shapes he saw hanging low in
the sky. If you stand where he stood
[music] and look to the west, you're
looking toward Mount Fuji, the most
sacred mountain in the country. A peak
with shrines built into its slopes,
pilgrims on its trails, and with its own
long traditions of stories about beings,
gods, non-human intelligences, all in
the sky above the summit.
If you had to guess, why do you think
these beings are here?
If there's one message you can relay to
people who are thinking about this
topic, what would that
Maybe they don't know what to think
about it. And
Can you tell me a little bit more about
the guy who claims he has a personal UFO
that acts like a car that he can just uh
get on and drive at any moment? Get on
and and and and fly.
Fore
speech.
What what happened when you were at
Mount Fuji? Did you get any sort of
message?
Mhm.
Interesting. That's fascinating. So
maybe there you were meant to go there
or something. Maybe that that moment
then was somehow tied to what you ended
up experiencing when you went to Mount
Fuji. There was something about Mount
Fuji you needed to go and see. And it's
all sort of connected.
It almost feels like you're being guided
by non-human intelligence yourself. Do
you sometimes speculate that? [laughter]
What does she
When I set out for Japan, I thought I
was just chasing a story about a
government waking up to the UFO truth.
To the fact that this issue is real,
that it matters, and that it's been
sitting unattended for decades. But the
personal experiences I heard made me
think that that was just the tip of the
iceberg. how many more Hayasakas and
Asakawas are out there with their own
sightings and encounters. For them, this
was never abstract. And then they went
[music] into public service and found
themselves holding the government
accountable to do something about it.
There's an old saying in [music] Japan,
Toai Moto Kurashi, it's darkest directly
beneath the lantern. [music] The lamp
lights up the whole rim except the spot
right underneath it. For 70 years, the
light of this subject has been held
[music] in exactly one place. American
files, American hearings, American
secrets, with the whole [music] world
reading its own skies by whatever glow
reaches them. And directly beneath that
lantern, in the shadow it casts sits
Japan. An ally [music] with centuries of
sightings, lights over its mountains,
its sea, and its nuclear sights. in a
[music] government that was kept in the
dark the entire time. One that probably
never knew what the Malgms and
Kissingers [music] of the world did. The
people we interviewed today have stopped
waiting for the lamp to be handed to
them. They're lighting their own, trying
to find out where they stand on UFOs and
what they're [music] missing. Stay tuned
because I'll be releasing more episodes
from my twoe trip in Japan in the coming
weeks and months. We'll visit a
pyramid-shaped mountain outside
Fukushima, so magnetic and so busy with
UFO sightings [music] that the town at
its foot built its own UFO museum. We'll
dive deep into the famous Kofu incident
[music] where two school boys say that a
being stepped out of a UFO in 1975 and
tapped one of them on the shoulder. But
for now, keep your mind and your eyes
open. I'm Jesse Michaels and this is
American Alchemy.
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