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Utsurobune: UFOs of 19th Century Japan

Utsurobune: The UFO
(unidentified floating
object) of 19th Century

Japan

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The incident The image above is one of many illustrations of the Utsurobune no Banjo incident that happened in Japan
in the early 19th century. Although there are various accounts of the event, it is believed by many to have
One day late in the winter of 1803, some been an encounter with extraterrestrials, and not just because the vessel fishermen found in the ocean
fishermen located a vessel floating in the Pacific looks like a flying saucer.
Ocean of the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture. They
towed it back to the shore for further such fable that was written almost a millennium Cornwall mystery UFO
investigation. before. revealed to be remote-
controlled SEAGULL plane
It’s been described as a round “boat” Unfortunately, with little else to go on,
with some iron plating and glass windows. On it’s hard to say whether the utsurobune
the windows were strange geometric shapes that encounter was an international incident,
they had never seen before. This craft, which interstellar incident, or just a relatively modern
was dubbed an utsurobune or “hollow boat,” rehashing of an old folktale. Too bad Leonard
measured somewhere between 5 to 10 meters Nimoy wasn’t alive in 1803. He’s pretty good at
(16.4 to 32.8 feet) across. figuring this stuff out. []

Upon opening the craft they found a Woman Accidentally
woman inside. The woman was described as a
banjo, a word which meant “barbarian woman” Shoots, Kills Self While
or simply referred to a white woman.
Remember, political correctness was still ages Adjusting Bra Holster:
away at this point.
Police
However, this woman spoke a language
that no one could understand and likewise she Pilot reveals the out there truth after
couldn’t understand them. She wore clothes like strange object is photographed in the
they had never seen and a long white colored
hair extension. She also clung to a rather large skies above Bude
box that no one was allowed to look inside.
A 55-year-old southwestern Michigan woman A mysterious UFO spotted in the skies over
With communication at an impasse the who died after accidentally shooting herself in Cornwall was actually a remote-controlled
locals all decided the best course of action the head in January was adjusting a handgun in SEAGULL aircraft, it has been revealed.
would be to put her back in the craft and into the her bra holster at the time, said police.
ocean where she came from. That’s just what Experts were left baffled by pictures of
they did and the woman was never heard from The St. Joseph Public Safety Department the triangular object, which was caught on
again. You have to hand it to old-timey Japanese is awaiting a full autopsy report in the death of camera above a beach in Bude.
people. They really knew how to deal with a Christina Bond, but Director Mark Clapp on
complex situation efficiently. Wednesday released details about the But the owner of the UFO wrote into the
circumstances surrounding the Jan. 1 shooting to Western Morning News to reveal the truth.
What was it? the Kalamazoo Gazette.
"I can confirm that the "UFO" in the
The problem was solved for them at least. For Clapp said Bond was "having trouble photo was my great uncle's Seagull RC Plane
the rest of us it just leaves one big question mark adjusting her bra holster, couldn't get it to fit the with a camera," the unnamed pilot wrote.
over what exactly happened there. The way she wanted it to. She was looking down at
combination of strange clothes, language, it and accidentally discharged the weapon." "The photos are of before and during
symbols and boat leads many to envision an flight of the Seagull before we crashed it upon
alien encounter. Added to that, all of the Bond was taken to a hospital, where she landing on the cliff. Please apologise for the
illustrations of the utsurobune certainly seem to died. [] confusion for us."
resemble a flying saucer (bear in mind they are
not drawn to scale). Before it was identified, some sensible
sky gazers claimed it could be a Russian
However, a more likely explanation may bomber.
have been a hot air balloon’s gondola.
Ballooning was just becoming big in Western Others had less sensible suggestions.
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these developments, especially in small fishing
villages. It’s this same closed-off nature that
might have made other nations really eager to
take a peek inside. So, it might not be far-fetched
to assume the utsurobune was just a spy balloon
from somewhere like Russia that had crashed
into the ocean.

That’s just a theory though, and there are
still many mysteries about this incident. For
example, stories of similar vessels found in the
ocean have been recorded in years before along
with other tales of people finding strange
women alone in odd places. This year’s Oscar
nominee The Tale of The Princess Kaguya is one