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Urban Legends or Mass Memory? An Exploratory Study of the “Miniature Flying Craft” Myth in 20th Century China
2025-05-17
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<p>This study presents a preliminary investigation into a widely shared yet academically undocumented phenomenon reported by children in China during the late 20th-century China. These accounts describe low-flying, metallic “miniature aircraft” that were said to be within reach of a bamboo pole and often included sightings of “tiny humanoid figures” inside. Remarkably, these narratives emerged independently across...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 010a51e2-d6bb-5f39-ba0d-dba283657508
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/3729h_v1