UFO sightings mapped as hotspots for extra-terrestrial activity found

The Pentagon has unveiled some of the hottest spots for UFO sightings, with western and southern Japan topping the chart in newly unveiled data.  The defense department’s new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) website has made 27 years of UFO data public for the first time. The site is intended to act as a ‘one-stop shop’ for reported sightings of ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena’ (UAP), the newer term used for UFOs . A map on the site indicates where the majority of sightings have been recorded since 1996 up until this year. According to the image, one of the world’s major hotspots lies around western and southern Japan, near Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The Pentagon has unveiled new UFO data (Image: GETTY ) The map also suggests that the southeastern USA over South Carolina is another hotspot. Western coastal states, particularly California, also appear to be hotspots.  A stretch of land across the Middle East comprising of Iraq and Syria also appears to be a prominent location for UFO sightings. Japan set up its only research institute with a sole purpose of investigating UFOs in 2021. T he International UFO Laboratory , based in Fukushima, reportedly has around 3,000 materials linked to UFOs on display, the Japan Times reports. The Pentagon has also released a tool allowing current and former US government employees, service members and contractors to “provide reports via a private and secure means’. The Pentagon map shows where the majority of UFO sightings have been recorded since 1996 (Image: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE | OFFICE OF PREPUBLICATION AND SECURITY REVIEW) In a press release detailing the new site, the defense department said it was “committed to transparency with the American people” with its work on UFOs. This comes after Pentagon whistleblowers accused the government of withholding information about alien life in a bombshell congressional hearing. Retired Navy pilot Ryan Graves claimed that UFOs have been detected by Navy operations all across the world. He was allegedly asked whether UFO encounters during training flights were limited to reports on the US’ East Coast. According to the image, one of the world’s major hotspots lies around western and southern Japan, near Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The map also suggests that southeastern USA, South Carolina specifically, is another hotspot. A stretch of land across the Middle East comprising of Iraq and Syria also appears a prominent location for UFO sightings. Japan set up its only research institute with the sole purpose of investigating UFOs in 2021. But Graves claimed that unidentified objects have been seen ‘essentially where all Navy operations are being conducted across the world’. He said all the UFOs, or UAPs, looked like ‘dark grey or black cubes inside of clear sphere’ where ‘the apex or tips of the cube were touching the inside of the sphere’. Another whistleblower, ex-Navy Commander David Farvor, claimed he saw a “tic tac” object flying across the sky during a 2004 training mission. He said during his opening statement: ‘I’d like to say that the tic tac object we engaged in 2004 was far superior to anything that we had at the time, have today or looking to develop in the next 10 years. “If we in fact have programs that possess this technology it needs to have oversight from those people that the citizens of this country elected in office to represent what is best for the United States and best for the citizens.’ Follow our social media accounts here on  facebook.com/ExpressUSNews   and  @expressusnews