Watch a 1975 Japanese anime from the Dragon Ball studio chronicling true-life UFO encounters
Aux Features Toei Animation
Now here’s something cool: the folks over at Reddit’s r/ObscureMedia forum have dug up a weird old anime short from 1975 about the very real phenomenon of UFOs called That’s A UFO! The Flying Saucer. It’s subtitled, about 15 minutes long, and you can watch it above.
The “documentary” short comes from Toei Animation, the studio behind Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon and was created for 1975's 12th annual Toei Cartoon Festival, where the studio premieres theatrical versions of its popular series during school breaks. The film covers a number of historical UFO encounters, such as the 1948 Mantell UFO Incident, and the preceding year’s Kenneth Arnold sighting. The histories of these sightings are detailed, before diving into exactly what the UFOs look like, how they function, and what’s going on with the blueish-green dudes inside.
It’s a well-produced, fun way to spend a quarter of an hour, and given all we’ve learned about the Navy’s UFO sightings over the past year or so, it might be about time for a sequel.
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“The number of UFO’s we’ve seen is greater than Krillin’s losing streak!”I love DBZAbridged!
It’s almost like ufos are actually real! Maybe all those thousands upon thousands of people who have been risking everything to tell everyone their stories were telling the truth!
That 70’s style anime brings back memories of my childhood watching Battle of the Planets in the late 70’s. At least that’s what it was called in America at that time.
Hell Yeah. This show and “Star Blazers” a few years later were awesome. I used to catch Battle of the Planets in the old pre-cable 70’s on either WNEW or WPIX…