Is it from space?: Australia puzzles over this mysterious object on the beach

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Otherwise, Western Australia’s coastal town of Green Head is rather sleepy. Lately, however, the place has been making headlines around the world. The cause of the excitement is a mysterious object that washed up on a remote beach on Saturday. That reports The Guardian.

It is a 2.5 meter high metal cylinder, which is partly made of gold-colored material. It’s unclear exactly what kind of object it is and where it came from – the cylinder is a mystery to the small town of only a few hundred inhabitants.

Danger to the population cannot be ruled out

Since the discovery, there has been wild speculation about the object’s origin and function. While some speak of debris from a missing civilian plane, others claim the cylinder is space debris. Still others speak of extraterrestrial material.

The authorities are also puzzled by the cylinder. It is unclear where the find came from. At first, the police could not rule out a threat to the public. The beach in question was even temporarily closed after the discovery.

Meanwhile, the Australian Space Agency has announced that the cylinder could be the housing of a rocket motor. “The part could have come from a strange space object,” the agency continued. However, from where exactly is open. Information is being exchanged with other international programs from which it is hoped to receive more information.

Is the cylinder from an Indian missile?

On the Reddit platform, users are speculating that the cylinder could belong to an Indian-made LVM3-M4 missile. Since India launched one in mid-July as part of a lunar voyage project, this theory could well be a thing.

After all, the authorities have so far been able to rule something out: “Contrary to widespread speculation, there are no indications that the object is connected to a civilian aircraft,” the police said on Wednesday. The rocket propulsion theory has been the most plausible to date.

As the report goes on to say, the object has now been transported to an unknown location. Demands have already been made on Twitter to permanently return the cylinder to the beach as a tourist attraction. Roger Cook (57), the Prime Minister of Western Australia, is even toying with the idea of ​​exhibiting the object in the Western Australian Museum, where you can already see the remains of Skylab, the first space station in the United States. (dzc)

Source: Blick