Forrest Beach Takeaway owner Lisa Scobie said the community wanted to know their origins.
“It’s very quiet here and not much happens, so having a lot of extra activity has definitely created a bit of excitement,” she told public broadcaster ABC.
“The location and characteristics of the object are consistent with the remains of a foreign rocket body that recently re-entered the atmosphere from orbit,” according to the latest statement from ASA.
This is not the first time such a mysterious object has been discovered off the coast of Australia.
In 2023, India confirmed that a huge metal dome that washed up on a Western Australian beach near Perth came from one of its rockets.
A spokesperson for the Indian Space Agency later told the BBC that the object came from one of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles (PSLV).
A spherical object similar to the one discovered last weekend was also discovered in a remote grassland in Namibia, southern Africa, in 2011.
Experts at the time said it was most likely a fuel tank or bladder tank containing hydrazine, a highly volatile propellant for unmanned rockets.
