Not wanting to be left behind the Russian KGB in the “UFO” wars, the Japanese government has officially pronounced UFO’s as being real.

So if you are a true believer (Mysterious Earth is officially in the “skeptic” house), you can now tell everyone that UFO’s have government backing.

But Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura later told reporters he believed they were “definitely” real.

It is the sort of question politicians dread but, under Japanese rules, are unable to ignore.

A member of the opposition asked the government what its policy was to deal with UFOs.

He said work should begin urgently to try to confirm whether or not they exist because of what he called “incessant” reports of sightings.

Of course, most skeptics are going to ignore anything coming out of Japan.

Read the full BBC report.