Locals have been baffled by a giant object that washed up on a beach in West Australia. The unidentified object shaped like a dome has been found at Green Head Beach, about 250kms north of Perth.
The object is being carefully inspected by both state and federal authorities and is currently not believed to be from a commercial aircraft. The police are asking the public to stay away from it and treating it as hazardous.
"We want to reassure the community that we are actively engaged in a collaborative effort with various State and Federal agencies to determine the object's origin and nature", the police told BBC.
The copper-coloured cylinder seemed to be damaged as it was leaning on its side. The bottom half of the partially damaged cylinder looks like it could be ripped from its origin. Reportedly the object is 2.5m wide and between 2.5m and 3m long. The object seems to be made of light carbon fibre material like lightweight resin, ABC News reported.
The Australian space agency said it would liaise with other international agencies to establish whether it is part of a "foreign space launch vehicle".
Dr Alice Gorman, an expert in the field of space archaeology, said she believes the object is a fuel cylinder that came from the third stage of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket, The Guardian reported.
In the meantime, Australians from Queensland to Melbourne reported that they saw what seemed like a comet or an UFO, but, it was a rocket launched by India-- the nation hopes to become the fourth to achieve a soft landing on the moon. Chandrayaan-3 took off from an ISRO launchpad in Sriharikota with an orbiter, a lander and a rover on July 14.
