On this week's episode we chat about Close Encounters of the WEIRD Kind! We head over to Marisa's favorite topic, aliens. Siho brings us the legend of Utsuro-bune, "hollow boat". In this strange encounter a group of Japanese fisherman's catch of the day could be an alien…or a Russian woman on the run? Then we head over to Malaysia where Marisa brings us the serial invasion of mini-aliens and mini-UFOs spotted by children in the 1970s and 1980s. Encounters of the third kind for third graders!

Show Notes

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/x-files/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/close-encounters-of-an-intimate-kind-peking-days-1611554.html

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/thailand-ufo-buddhist-aliens/index.html

http://agent-8971.x-files.tripod.com/id26.html

https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/Alor_Island_Humanoids

https://www.faena.com/aleph/utsuro-bune-the-legend-of-an-extraterrestrial-arrival-by-sea

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utsuro-bune/

https://medium.com/@cybertheticproject/malaysias-miniature-alien-mystery-unveiling-the-enigmatic-encounters-of-tiny-visitors-9e7247302907

https://journal.com.ph/the-weird-invasion-of-miniature-aliens-in-malaysia/

http://pinktentacle.com/2009/07/the-case-of-the-captured-mini-ufo-1972/