Strange object found in sea off southern Japan today...

Not sure what people will make of this...

I found the picture today on the Japanese Yahoo! site, and was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what they might think it could be?

It doesn't seem to be loading

the external link to the image doesn't seem to work

reply to post by clanky2008


Do you have the link to the Yahoo article? So we can see the actual source? Thanks!

My link to the picture doesn't seem to be working!!

I'll try again...

I looked and found nothing. But then again, I do not speak Japanese.

www.yahoo.co.jp...

The Nephillim Giants have returned and ... this is the load bar for a roll of toilet paper???

or

Blue Whales disposable douche?

or

The way the mideast will slip a Nuke into a Demcoracy Trojan Horse style...

I can't seem to find the link again as the news item has shifted to another one...

I have to get to work teaching soon but as soon as possible I'll try to track down the link again! (I'm living and working in roughly the same part of Japan).

I will report back!!!

Just looks like something that probably fell off a cargo ship or maybe off an oil rig to me

Probably a booster stage from a rocket, either nasa etc or any of the hundreds that are launched to place satellites into orbit, etc.

It's a highly classified experimental Godzilla dildo. Those Japanese are up to something.

Originally posted by mopusvindictus
The Nephillim Giants have returned and ... this is the load bar for a roll of toilet paper???

or

Blue Whales disposable douche?

or


The way the mideast will slip a Nuke into a Demcoracy Trojan Horse style...

Hilarious

I'll venture to guess a cylinder to hold Gas Propane,natural or other.
lame but best I could do.

It doesn't appear scorched so I doubt it is from space.

Probably floated away from some offshore platform. Maybe one was damaged in one of the many typhoons over there. Is it steel, fiberglass, aluminum, ? HEre's a larger version of a similar standpipe.

reply to post by YSM85


So not cool at all...

Yeah my first thought was that it's part of an oil rig. I figured it's some kind of oil pipe. But that picture of the tower looks right on the money.

reply to post by solo1
I dont dont see anything either unless that was a picture of 'the whiteness'. I am so sick of this kind of b.S.,....
, oh never mind sorry guys, see it now. Looks like a storage tank of some kind to me.


[edit on 1-8-2008 by spookjr]

I dont know what you guys are on about, thats clearly a large smarties tube, the wrapper got wet and fell off.

Looks like a Solo Of Some Kind.. A storage container?

I've found an article about it.

Giant mystery cylinder found floating in East China Sea

GOTO, Nagasaki --
An unidentified white cylinder some 25 meters long has been found drifting in the sea off an island here, coast guard officials said.

The plastic-coated steel cylinder, which measures three to four meters in diameter and is marked "Nitrogen-filled," "Warning" and "Vacuum" in both Chinese and English, was first spotted by a fishing boat that was sailing in the area.

The Nagasaki Coast Guard Office is trying to identify the cylinder, and believe it may have been accidentally dropped from a large vessel that was transporting machine parts.

"If the object had contained something like liquid nitrogen, as indicated on its surface, it should have dissipated and there's little danger," said a coast guard office representative.

Officials have attached lights to the cylinder and are alerting fishermen to its presence. They have also been asking the Chinese consulate general and other entities to provide information on the owner of the object.

As of 4 p.m. on Thursday, the cylinder was drifting in the East China Sea, about 30 kilometers north of Fukue Island in Goto. The island is part of the Goto Archipelago.

The unidentified cylinder is seen drifting off Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture. (Photo courtesy of the Nagasaki Coast Guard Office)

mdn.mainichi.jp...