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Quick update for everyone following the Japan thread. At the regular cabinet press conference on Monday May 11, NicoNico News reporter Kou Nanao asked Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara three questions about the U.S. Department of War's May 8 release of 161 UAP records.

Kihara confirmed personal viewing. He named Japan's coordination posture toward Washington. On Japan's own disclosure he chose case-by-case discretion calibrated to protect intelligence-gathering capabilities, the same language structure the U.S. release used to justify what was withheld.

What didn't make Japan Times: this is not the first time Kihara has been on the record about UAP. Back in December 2023, then-Defense Minister Kihara was questioned about UAP at the Diet by Yoshiharu Asakawa and stated UAP was a personal concern because of his Japan Airlines background.

The MP asking the questions in 2023 was Asakawa. Asakawa chaired the questioning portion of the March 31 Parliamentary Federation 4th General Meeting (where six names from the ATTRITION roster were referenced). Asakawa translated the May 11 exchange and pushed it onto English-language social.

Same MP. Same broadcaster. Same reporter. Three-year arc.

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In 1989, a strange event occurred in Voronesh, a town 300 miles southeast of Moscow. This event was witnessed by over 40 people and remains one of the most attested encounters in history. It is the encounter that for the time made western UFO aware researchers that alien sightings were also happening more frequently behind the IRON CURTAIN.

We built this over the past several months from the published observational record. It is not an artist's impression. Every parameter in the model traces to a specific peer-reviewed paper or public dataset.

Features:

• Volumetric raymarched jet plumes with Bessel-function cross-section profiles
• Procedural hull surface with 3-band noise normal mapping (cratering + banding + weathering)
• Real-time thermal IR visualization (FLIR Iron palette, BT.709 luminance, sun-direction radiative bias)
• Date-driven sun position from actual heliocentric ephemeris (sun moves when you scrub dates)
• Body orientation slerps to real antisun direction per keyframe
• Cockpit-style instrument panel with live PA dial, light curve, and harmonic heartbeat gauges
• Post-processing: UnrealBloomPass + chromatic aberration + film grain + vignette
• 5 camera presets, 12 layer toggles, 5 view modes including thermal IR and RTN frame
• Mode-switch event (Dec 27) visible as jets transition from tight collimation to fan

Sources driving the reconstruction:

• Hull dimensions and post-perihelion activity: Hui & Jewitt (arXiv:2601.21569)
• Jet position angles, spin axis PA=290°, wobble measurement: Scarmato & Loeb (arXiv:2604.18773)
• Exhaust velocity 0.37 km/s (half cometary norm): Biver et al. IRAM 30m (arXiv:2603.23240)
• CN ignition at 2.97 AU, outside-in gas emergence: 7DT collaboration (arXiv:2602.12930v1)
• 80-90% extended water source, anti-sunward CO flow: Li, Shi, Hui & Shi, Shanghai radio (arXiv:2602.14218v1)
• Minimum four-thruster proof from three-axis control: Andree (arXiv:2603.16981)
• [O I] forbidden line, CO2 elevated outbound: Shinnaka et al. Subaru HDS (arXiv:2603.25002)
• Orbital elements: JPL Horizons (e=6.145, q=1.356 AU)

The heliocentric distances for all six Hubble visits match Hui & Jewitt Table 1 to four decimal places: V1=1.7937 AU (Nov 30), V2=2.1052 (Dec 12), V3=2.5360 (Dec 27), V4=2.8740 (Jan 7), V5=3.0950 (Jan 14), V6=3.3480 (Jan 22).

The model: https://3i-model.thesentinel.network

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Could we have some great discussions of some theories of anything to do with aliens, please the comedians and disrupters, maybe we can just ignore them and continue the conversation…