Posted on 02/22/2023 5:49:22 AM PST by Red Badger
A giant metal ball, around 1.5 metres in diameter, has appeared on a beach in Japan, astounding officials, residents and online spectators. . Picture: NHK World News
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The giant metal ball, around 1.5 metres in diameter, appeared on a beach on Japan's south coast, astounding officials, residents and online spectators.
After the ball was reported to authorities by a local resident on Tuesday morning, explosive experts quickly dismissed any immediate threat that it could be a mine, but are yet to uncover what the ball could be.
Police closed off the area on Enshu beach in Hamamatsu city while two agents in heavy protective gear appeared to examine the sphere.
X-ray technology revealed the ball to be hollow while the outside has a rusty appearance and two raised handles, raising speculation it is normally hooked onto something.
Restrictions to the beach were then lifted at 4pm after the object, thought to be made of iron, was deemed to be safe. The Japanese armed forces and coastguard officials are continuing to examine photographs of the ball.
The ball sparked a flurry of speculation online as curious onlookers wondered about the origins of the ball.
One user took to Twitter to say: "Please be UFO, please be UFO."
While another suggested that the ball resembled something from manga series Dragon Ball, writing: "This washed up on the shores of Japan yesterday. It’s a Dragon Ball, right?"
Another Tweeter theorised: "It's one of those baubles that went flying down Oxford Street at Christmas."
It comes after the US was forced to shoot down three balloon-like objects in the sky, initially thought to be used for Chinese surveillance.
That means Godzilla will be showing up soon!
It’s a buoy. Mystery solved.
Might be a gull................
It looks like Mars, right down to the crater on the bottom.
Perhaps the flat-earthers were right, after all?
Building a narrative ...
That’s what I thought. But my sea experience is limited.
They should bring over one of them Truck X-Ray Scanners used at border crossings. If they hear some UFO dude scream when they scan it, then they know it’s ET, otherwise, just a hunk of metal.
“It’s a buoy. Mystery solved.”
Yep.
You first...................
The Great Monkey Hoax 1954.
Fake BS clickbait. It’s a float or a bouy. Something like this washes up multiple times a week on any coast. SMH...
It’s a buoy for an anti submarine net https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/tw7iqw/warehouse_of_steel_floats_for_antisubmarine_nets/
That’s what I thought when I first saw the picture. The alien idea seems ridiculous to me. Tiny aliens floating in a rusty metal ball. Right.
It’s Rover
You beat me, I should have read down the thread before I posted Rover
What if it’s an EGG?!?!?!!?!?!?..................🤷♂️
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