A Japanese UFO? - The Utsuro-Bune Incident of 1803

Today, we examine a mysterious event in Japanese history where a strange object drifted to shore in 1803 near a fishing village. Some are convinced the event is clear evidence of an extraterrestrial visitation by aliens occurring in our not so distant past. Did aliens flying a UFO really visit Japan? Or is there a more likely explanation? Let’s find out! Hope you enjoy this installment of Trey the Explainer!

Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked:

[Cansun]

“A wooden, lowtech spaceship sounds ridiculous”
Some alien on their version of youtube
“Going to another planet with only 50 space bucks(GONE WRONG CRASH LANDING)”

[fuckYTIDontWantToUseMyRealName]

"She ate a delicious cake in the boat."
What a necessary, useful detail to include.

[PanzerMan]

(Woman alone in small boat with no means of self-propulsion washes up on shore)

Japanese fishermen: *ｂａｃｋ ｔｏ ｔｈｅ ｓｅａ， ｗｅｎｃｈ*

[Intrepid]

Beautiful young girl washes up on a small boat with little food, she seems friendly and utterly harmless.

Better stuff her back in the boat and set her back adrift! 🤷‍♂️

[CC-edlf]

Those japanese fisherman literally straight up killed that woman.

[collectpanda]

You can’t just drop “hollow boat Chan” on somebody while they’re eating. I nearly choked

[FakeSugarVillain]

Imagine finding a woman with a box and being like "Yeap, the head of her lover must be inside"

[chestersim]

If we ever go extinct, a new civilisation would uncover records of a giant lizard that wreaked havoc on Japan.

[Graeme_Lastname]

Don't recall ever seeing a boat that was not hollow.

[ligeia]

OMG wait her story of falling in love and being sent in the sea after that sounds REALLY really similar to a Russian tale called "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" there was Tsar's wife, who was tucked into a barrel and sent into the sea with her son, because her sisters told the Tsar (he was in war) that his wife gave birth to some kind of a creature, but not a child (I mean there was apparently no son in this Japanese story, but hey, it sounds very similar). I guess you can find the English translation of the tale in a book "Russian Wonder Tales" by Post Wheeler
Edit: Maybe this Japanese author has heard the Russian tale and decided to interpret it in the way he did.
Edit 2: I should have watched the video till the end (hehe). Well, I find this story very interesting due to it's (kind of) similarity with Russian tale about a woman being sent away (to die) in the sea in some sort of a hollow wooden boat
P.S. Hello from Russia, btw

[Nanonear]

They: “A wooden, low-tech spaceship sounds ridiculous”
Me: haha. Yea, who does that? (pulls tarp frantically over my wooden, low-tech space ship.)

[kami]

U should start a series clarifying “ancient aliens” to ur best ability

[guineatte]

I went through all the emotions from
“It’s definitely not aliens but a true story “ to
“It could still have truth at its core” to
“No, it probably is fake” to
“Darn it, it is 200% fake and I fell for it”

[nogoodgod]

- She is human
- She is friendly
- She eats human food
- She speaks a language
- The boat is made of wood
- The boat is never observed to be able to fly
- The boat is low tech and it can't even move by itself



*MUST BE ALIENS*

[SirEriol]

Imagine being an extraterrestrial that managed to reach the Earth with just a wooden boat in order to befriend some humans, greeting them, asking for privacy regarding your box of underwear and then being _rudely tossed back into the ocean after a little while._

_These humans nowadays have no manners._

[anatoliecazacu]

There is a russian tale about an angry king who put his wife and newborn kid in a barrel and sent them to drift in the sea.

So in the box might have been a dead newborn.

[frankdantuono]

“A wooden, low-tech spaceship sounds ridiculous”
Maybe they were Swedes from clan Ikea. That would explain why the ship didn't have a rudder... or any form of propulsion.

[justsomeguy]

“Hallow Boat-Chan”: Exist
Anime Artist: My Time Has Come

[Liboo]

“Let us call her, ‘Hollow Boat-chan”
I had to pause the video because my sides hurt too badly from laughing at that

[kn]

Contrary to popular belief by westerners, it was actually quite common for foreign fishing boats, especially from Russia, to abruptly land in Japan during the isolation period. The existence of other countries such as the U.S. were already known in Japan at that time due to the shared information from the Dutch. Japan also had multiple contact with the Russians in the north at this point.