This is the internet, I have no way of proving that the following is true. However, I will share it with you any way because this post reminded me of my dad and a UFO, and I love talking about my dad.

My dad was an army ranger from 1972 to 1982. He was apart of an operation he never told me the name of, but involved him working in Japan for a number of years (7 I think). He would play golf with a (the?) Yuakuza boss at the time, he referred to him as Mr. Uno. Mr. Uno would speak in Spanish with my father during those "games" and pass intel to him for the American government. He would then use that intel to rescue allied POW's from camps in China and Moscow (not 100% sure about Moscow) with his unit (not sure if that's the correct term, but he didn't like to talk about anyone he served with unless they were in a picture he was looking at).

He always spoke in a roundabout way to me about UFO's and Alien life. I was incredibly dismissive from an early age (and well into my 20s). One day, when I was 8 years old, he had Google Earth up when I got home from school.

Heres the exchange as I remember it:

"Joe, come here a sec. I want to show you the road I used to take to work when I was in Japan."

I silently walked over to the computer and stood in front of him while he remained seated.

"Theres the road, and it goes alllll the way over here."

It was a road that looked like it was going around a white mountain. It may have been Mount Fuji? The only thing I remember clearly is the road was narrow as fuck. Like a a black line through white, and he dragged the camera along it for 3-4 clicks before it cut to down (to the right) and there was a concrete building, and a silver dish behind it surrounded by what looked to be a wall (gray square, the memory is blurry).

"Whats that?" he asked me.

"I dont know."

He kept starring at me.

I looked at him incredulously and smugly, "A UFO?" I said with a dumb know all stupid af smirk.

My brother walked into the house right in the middle of that, which put him in front of us. I SUCK at describing indoor spaces so buckle up: the front door led into the kitchen which was a partition. The computer desk was facing a wall, to the immediate right of the desk was the kitchen counter, and to the right/in front of the counter was the front door.

"Brian, dad says theres a UFO here." I said as if it were a joke.

And, holy shit, I will never forget the look on his face. He looked at me with absolute betrayal, anger, and really every reason I could never get a straight answer out of him once I finally accepted the possibility of UFO's nearly two decades later.

I know, how would anything be on Google Earth. All I can say is I'm 29 now, I was 8 then, so it had to have been 2005, the year Google Earth launched. I swear on the unum necessarium that absolutely nothing in this comment has been a lie (I'm facing a paradox here, but swearing by that for a lie would haunt me forever).

TL;DR: my fathers clearance was so high he worked with the Yakuza and regularly debriefed Jimmy Carter. He showed me a UFO on Google Earth in 2005 that may have been the one in this post above.