In mid-September 2026, an event took place that could change the usual course of the debate about unidentified anomalous phenomena. US Congressman Eric Burlison, together with former Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada and former Japanese parliament member Yoshiharu Asakawa, published a joint article. In it, they openly declared: elected representatives of democratic countries can no longer wait for their own intelligence services and defense agencies to decide what information to release. It is time to act together.
Since February 2026, the US administration, under the PURSUE program, has begun an unprecedented declassification of documents, video recordings, and testimonies about encounters with UAP. Among them are reports by senior intelligence officials about "superheated" objects that split into parts, maneuver at enormous speed, and approach helicopters within mere meters. These materials marked a historic departure from nearly eighty years of a policy of silence. Yet lawmakers received not answers but new questions. Who or what flies freely over secret military facilities? Who owns this technology? And why do the elected representatives of the people still not have full access to the data?
Japanese legislators ran into the same wall. In May 2026, American releases disclosed two unresolved incidents in the area of responsibility of the US Indo-Pacific Command. Japanese lawmakers learned about them not from their own Ministry of Defense but from American files. Even more telling was the case in July 2025 at the Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture. Security guards observed three glowing objects for almost two hours. The police later called what was seen an "aircraft," but the plant's cameras recorded everything. To this day, members of Japan's National Diet have still not received those recordings. The Ministry of Defense and the police cite an ongoing investigation.
Back in 2023, the American agency AARO identified the western and southern regions of Japan as among the world's "hot spots" for the number of UAP reports. Now Japanese lawmakers say outright: their own channels are not enough. Their American colleagues say the same. The classic path — "politely asking" the CIA or the Pentagon — no longer works.
That is precisely why Burlison, Hamada, and Asakawa turned to a new platform — the Emerging Technologies Interparliamentary Caucus (ETIC). It is an association of lawmakers from different countries, created to discuss threats related to quantum technologies, artificial intelligence, drones, and, of course, UAP. Their logic is simple: if information does not move vertically within national structures, it can be gathered horizontally — by comparing data among allies.
The authors of the article do not hide the fact that this is a genuine technological race. The capabilities these objects demonstrate — in propulsion, the control of matter, and possibly of space-time itself — call into question conventional ideas about physics. While democratic countries argue about the degree of secrecy, China has already created a special military structure and is bringing in artificial intelligence to track "unidentified aerial phenomena." Technology that allows objects to appear freely over nuclear power plants and military bases could redefine the balance of power.
The joint position of the American congressman and the Japanese legislators is blunt: the people of our countries deserve answers, and we intend to find them. This is no longer only about the internal American standoff between Congress and the intelligence services. The architecture of disclosure is changing. Lawmakers from allied democracies are beginning to act directly with one another, bypassing the institutional barriers that for decades kept information inside closed structures.
