Decided to shoot light bullets on rice fields, Okinawa Defense Bureau asks US forces to confirm December 6th 4:15
On the 5th, it was found that something like a lighting bullet had fallen in a rice field in Kinbu-cho, Okinawa Prefecture, and there was a report in advance that an exercise was conducted at a nearby US military exercise ground. Asks the US military for confirmation.
Around 4pm on the 5th, a nearby person witnessed something like a lighting bullet falling on a rice field in Kinki-cho, Okinawa. There were no injuries.
According to the staff of the local ward who confirmed the site, the Okinawa Defense Bureau said that an umbrella part of a parachute with a diameter of about 1 meter and a cylindrical object of about 10 cm in length were found from the rice fields. It was collected.
There is a training camp “camp Hansen” where the US military routinely conducts shooting training, etc., 200 meters to the north of this rice field. It means that there was a report from the military to the prefecture.
For this reason, the Okinawa Defense Bureau is asking the US military to confirm the collected items.