{"id":52838,"date":"2023-02-22T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/mysterious-metal-iron-ball-sphere-beach-japan-officials-investigate"},"modified":"2023-02-22T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T04:51:24","slug":"spy-balloon-ufo-or-dragon-ball-japan-baffled-by-iron-ball-washed-up-on-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52838","title":{"rendered":"Spy balloon, UFO or Dragon Ball? Japan baffled by iron ball washed up on beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 1.5 metres in diameter, the mysterious metal sphere has been the source of intense speculation online<\/p>\n<p>Police and residents in a Japanese coastal town have been left baffled by a large iron ball that has washed up on a local beach, with authorities admitting they have no idea what it is \u2013 only that it isn\u2019t about to explode.<\/p>\n<p>The sphere, measuring about 1.5 metres in diameter, has been at the centre of fevered speculation since it washed up on Enshu beach in the city of Hamamatsu on the country\u2019s Pacific coast, local media reports said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/mysterious-metal-iron-ball-sphere-beach-japan-officials-investigate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1.5 metres in diameter, the mysterious metal sphere has been the source of intense speculation onlinePolice and residents in a Japanese coastal town have been left baffled by a large iron ball that has washed up on a local beach, with authorities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52839,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838\/revisions\/52839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}