{"id":4182,"date":"2025-03-11T16:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/episode-of-thewhyfiles-featuring-utsuro-bune-story-3\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:46:48","slug":"episode-of-thewhyfiles-featuring-utsuro-bune-story-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/episode-of-thewhyfiles-featuring-utsuro-bune-story-3\/","title":{"rendered":"episode of TheWhyFiles featuring Utsuro-Bune story?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to track down an episode of The Why Files that featured the Utsuro-Bune story. I have a hazy memory of a <strong>Japanese princess encountering a UFO<\/strong>, but I&#8217;ve searched the channel with various keywords and can&#8217;t seem to find it. Does anyone else recall this episode?<\/p>\n<p>Could I be mixing this up with content from another channel? It&#8217;s possible it was just a brief segment within a different episode.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to open a discussion about this topic. It seems challenging to find information since most of it is likely in Japanese rather than English. For some context, here&#8217;s a related Wikipedia article about another Japanese UFO story: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Utsuro-bune\">Utsuro-bune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also came across the tale of the Princess and the woodcutter, known as &#8220;<em>Taketori Monogatari<\/em>,&#8221; but I haven&#8217;t found a corresponding episode on The Why Files about it. Does anyone know of similar Japanese stories related to aliens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI&#8217;m trying to track down an episode of The Why Files that featured the Utsuro-Bune story. I have a hazy memory of a Japanese princess encountering a UFO, but I&#8217;ve searched the channel with various keywords and can&#8217;t seem to find it. Does anyone else recall this episode? Could I be mixing this up with&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/episode-of-thewhyfiles-featuring-utsuro-bune-story-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;episode of TheWhyFiles featuring Utsuro-Bune story?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}