A mysterious giant metal cylinder washed up on a beach in Western Australia and police urged beachgoers to stay away from the potentially “hazardous” object.
According to a report by the Independent, the unidentified object was reported to police by residents near Green Head town on the Mid-West coast on Sunday afternoon. The Western Australian police are trying to determine if the object’s origin and nature are “hazardous”.
The police do not believe that the object originated from a commercial aircraft and urged people to refrain from drawing conclusions as many people linked it to UFOs and others linked it to a missing Malaysian MH370 flight.
The pictures and videos on social media show a copper-coloured object in a damaged state. It appears the object has been detached from something and its bottom half appears like it was ripped from its origin.