article_snippet.sent: Luckily, Japanese can sleep soundly in Japanese beds tonight as the government's top military official earnestly revealed that the country's Air Self Defense Force (ASDF) had never encountered an extraterrestrial unidentified flying object.
article_snippet.sent: Responding to a query from flamboyant former wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani told the Diet, Japan's parliament, that his jets had, to date, never come across any UFOs from outer space.
article_snippet.sent: When the Air Self Defense Force detects indications of an unidentified flying object that could violate the country's airspace, the Air Self Defense Force scrambles fighter jets if necessary and makes visual observation," Nakatani said.
article_snippet.sent: Nakatani continued: "They sometimes find birds or flying objects other than aircraft
article_snippet.sent: but I don't know of a case of finding an unidentified flying object believed to have come over from anywhere other than Earth.
highlights_snippet.sent: Japan's top military official earnestly revealed that the country's Self Defense Force (SDF) had never encountered a UFO .
  