As reported
Fireball over Osaka - Itami Chome (Japan) · Japan
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
White Fireball Orb - suddenly appears & disappears over Itami, Japan
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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What would the paper say?
Japanese records answer to the Act on Access to Information (1999). Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Ministry of Defense (Japan) · records window 2005-12-12 → 2005-12-29