Green Head town/Australia: A metal cylinder washed up on a beach in Western Australia has left beachgoers in trouble.
As authorities can’t yet determine what it is, people are asked to stay away the probable ‘hazardous’ object, according to Independent.
Residents of the Green Head town on the Mid-West coast reported to the police the presence of a ‘mysterious object’ on Sunday.
The Western Australian police do not link origin of the object to any commercial aircraft.
Police refuted many taking the object for something related to UFOs, while a lot others believe it is from a missing Malaysian MH370 flight.
‘In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation, officers from the Western Australia Police Force are currently guarding the object, the police said.
Photos emerging from the site showed a copper-coloured object in wrecked state.
It appeared to be detached from a main body as its bottom had edges looking like ripped apart from something else.
Australian Space Agency is working on to determine if it belongs to a foreign space launch vehicle, a spokesperson for the agency said.
‘As the origin of the object is unknown, the community should avoid handling or attempting to move the object, the spokesperson was quoted as saying.
Space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman termed it a fuel cylinder from India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket or Chandrayaan-3, according to The Guardian.
‘It's surprising because it's such a large fragment. And it makes you wonder what was going on at the time if maybe a marine weather event dislodged it and brought it ashore’ she reportedly said.