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The discovery of a large sphere in the coastal city of Hamamatsu, about 200 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, has sparked a wave of speculation.
Local authorities, the police and the bomb disposal unit, did not know what the object was that was sent to Nshuhama beach.
They only discovered that the ball was empty and hollow Does not pose a threatSome suspect it may be a form of floatation.
Fascinated people of the place have already invented some names “The Godzilla Egg”“mooring buoy” and “outer space” means.
All are unknown
Japanese public broadcaster NHK showed images of two officers on Enshuhama beach looking at the rusted metal sphere, approximately 1.5 meters in diameter.
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Officials cordoned off the area even though they ruled out that the sphere could pose a danger.
Neighbors who saw the unusual object on the beach first alerted the police.
Officers cordoned off the area and carried out X-rays, although these did not reveal much, confirming the material posed no danger.
An athlete jogging on the beach admitted his surprise to the local media at the commotion as he assured the ball had been there for some time.
“I tried to push her, but she didn’t move,” he told NHK.
Local officials said the material would be removed soon.
In full political tension
Discoveries of this type would not normally raise suspicion in normal times, but this one occurred at the time mentioned. Concerns about unidentified objects This follows the US shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon earlier this month.
Last Wednesday, Japan expressed its discomfort to China over suspected detection of surveillance balloons in its skies at least three times since 2019.
It was the first such accusation from Tokyo against Beijing, which has denied carrying out the spying.
The defense ministers of the two countries met on Wednesday in the first high-level bilateral defense talks in four years.
Both sides agreed to get a communications hotline up and running this spring.
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