A large metal sphere that washed up on a shore in Japan has perplexed locals and set off a flurry of speculation. Authorities can't say what it is yet - not even the police or bomb squad sent to ...

Japanese broadcaster NHK showed footage of two officials on Enshuhama Beach looking at the rusty, metal sphere that appeared about 1.5m (4.9ft) wide. Read more about the spherical mystery here.

Large metal sphere found in Japan on Enshu Beach. NHK World News/Twitter Officials reportedly blocked off a 200-meter radius (655 feet) around the ball as they investigated the perplexing sphere.

A man told NHK News that he didn’t understand why it was getting so much attention, saying he had spotted the metal sphere (measuring 1.5 meters/4.9 feet in diameter) more than a month earlier.

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He claimed the mystery sphere had actually been on the beach for as long as a month, further claiming that he tried to move it himself by pushing it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this did not work.

A BIZARRE metal ball washed up onto a beach in Japan is leaving officials baffled as people claim it could be a UFO. The mysterious ball that appears to be made of metal, has a huge diameter of 1.5… ...

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