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Utsuro Bune Research Paper

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The story of Utsuro-Bune is a strange one, which dates back to Japan in the early nineteenth century. The story can be found in the Iwase Bunko Depository library in a document titled ‘Hyouryuukishuu’, which translates as ‘Diary and Tales of Castaways’. The stories depict Japanese sailors in foreign lands and castaways from different countries landing on the beaches of Japan. One of the stories of the ‘Hyouryuukishuu’ is of Utsuro-Bune, a strange-looking ship, which would appear from the depths of the Pacific Ocean and make its way to Harashagahama in Hitachi-no-kuni, which is now the Ibaraki Prefecture, a region of Japan. Aboard the ship was a young woman, approximately 18 – 20 years old, who was elegantly dressed and had red eyebrows, …show more content…

In a more detailed account of the legend, Educating Humanity describes how on February 22 1803, a strange vessel washed up on the shores near the village of Harashagahama. The account of the story describes how, at the time, numerous drawings were made which depicted the vessel and the mysterious woman on-board. “These are described in the UFO community as some of the earliest known drawings of UFOs.” Educating Humanity goes on to explain how two books focusing on the Utsuro Bune incident were published. Toen Shousetsu was published in 1825 and Ume no Chiri in 1844 and both predate what’s considered as ‘modern’ UFO sightings. In 2015, Top Secret Writers wrote about four unusual UFO sightings reported on Reddit since November (4). As always, it is important to study all the facts and then make an educated guess about what the objects might have been. Though a sighting of a mysterious ship off Japan’s coast in 1803, that resembled the shape and size of how we recognize UFOs today way before the symbolic ‘flying saucer’ image was etched onto cultural consciousness, remains one of the strangest UFO stories in existence. What do you think? Is it possible the Japanese were visited by someone from another world? Or, is there a different

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