Japan is a hotspot for UFOs.

Japan has been named as a top location for UFO sightings

Japan has been named as a top location for UFO sightings

The US Department of Defence has published a document that shows where sightings of unidentified objects have been reported most frequently using data based on reports from between 1996 and 2023.

The map has been released following the confession by a top Pentagon official that hundreds of UFOs have been observed "all over the world".

One of the planet's biggest hotspots is around western and southern Japan - near the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where the US dropped atomic bombs in 1945.

It is one of three prominent locations for UFOs across the globe, along with part of the Middle East that includes Iraq and Syria and an area over the US state of South Carolina.

Japan is home to the International UFO Lab and the facility's leader Takeharu Mikami isn't ruling out the presence of aliens.

He said: "It may be possible to create these images with computer graphics. But if they're real UFOs, aliens may be onboard."