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Forrest Beach Takeaway owner Lisa Scobie said the local community was curious to know their origin.<\/p>\n
“It’s very quiet, not a lot happens here. So having a lot of extra activity… that definitely created a little bit of excitement,” she told public broadcaster ABC.<\/p>\n
According to the ASA’s latest statement, “the objects’ location and characteristics are consistent with debris from a foreign rocket body that recently re-entered the atmosphere from orbit”.<\/p>\n
It is not the first time that such mysterious objects have been spotted on Australia’s shoreline.<\/p>\n
In 2023, India confirmed that a giant metal dome that washed up on a Western Australian beach near Perth was from one of its rockets.<\/p>\n
India’s space agency spokesman later told the BBC that it was from one of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles (PSLV).<\/p>\n
A spherical object similar to those discovered this weekend was also found in remote grassland in Namibia, southern Africa, in 2011.<\/p>\n
Experts at the time said they believed it was most likely a fuel tank or bladder tank containing hydrazine – a highly volatile propellant – from an unmanned rocket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n