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Mysterious 200 year old hand drawn Japanese accounts of a strange woman from a metal bowl/disk shaped craft that flew out of the sea during the edo period of Japan. 

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(1) The Japanese have a folktale about a princess named Kaguya-hime. A grandpa one day wandered into the bamboo forest. Only to find a beautiful girl inside of a bamboo shoot. He takes the beautiful baby home to his wife and they take care of Kaguya-hime. Kaguya-hime is sought after by the most wealthy and powerful men in Japan. Instead she decided to leave Japan and go back to the moon where her true home is. Angels come down on a boat and pick her up. The end. Sounds like an alien. 

(2) I wonder if there’s any connection to those red-haired mummy’s they found in china. 

A well recorded and little known event in the Western world would be the events of the Utsuro Bune. This is a myth dating from circa 1800 Japan. It states that a USO ( unidentified submerged object) washed up on the shore. The inhabitants of the village witnessed the object on the shore stating that is was spherical with strange writing on it. Out of the capsule came a woman dressed in fine clothing. She spoke a different language and was not able to communicate with the locals. 

The Iwase Bunko Library has in its possession a document entitled Hyouryuukishuu (”Tales of Castaways”), which was printed during the late Edo period (1603-1868):

According to the document, this vessel washed ashore at Harashagahama in Hitachi-no-kuni (present-day Ibaraki prefecture):

Together with these tales is the report of a damaged ship with a extremely mystifying form. According to the record, this large craft washed shorewards at Harashagahama. The specifications of the craft, specified as 3 meters tall by 5 meters in width, had been built from red sandalwood and metal and was equipped with openings of glass or crystal:

The mystifying characters of an unfamiliar writing system were discovered etched inside the craft. Aboard the wandering vessel was a delicately decorated young lady with pale face and red eyebrows and locks. She was assessed to be amid Eighteen and Twenty years of age. Considering that she uttered an unfamiliar language, those that chanced upon her were incapable of determining from where she came.
In her arms, she grasped a basic timber case that looked to be of great importance to her, as she would permit nobody to approach it.

The Utsuro Bune is as ancient as its tale and many scholars believe that it has been since the Country’s ancient version Japanese UFO sighting. The peculiar characteristic of sightings like this differentiates from those UFOs seen in the western world.