Australian authorities have issued a warning to beach-goers after a strange cylindrical object, potentially part of a foreign spacecraft, washed ashore on Jurien Bay beach in Western Australia.
The bizarre discovery was shared by the Australian Space Agency (ASA) in a series of tweets on Monday, urging the community to avoid handling or moving the object due to its unknown origin.
According to local resident Garth Griffiths, a couple of area residents stumbled upon the object floating in the shallows and managed to retrieve it using a four-wheel drive vehicle.
Griffiths described the semi-cylindrical object to ABC News Australia, measuring over 2.5 meters across and around three meters long, made of a lightweight carbon fiber material resembling resin.
Photos of the bronze-colored cylinder covered in barnacles have sparked comparisons to a colossal beer can or a remnant from an alien civilization.
Upon reporting the find, locals alerted the authorities, prompting an investigation in collaboration with the military and the ASA to determine the object’s origins.
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