Aliens found in Queensland: Full list of bizarre photos
Queensland is already home to a wide range of truly bizarre and wonderful creatures but as these images prove there may be a lot more we don’t know about.
The truth is out there (maybe).
Queensland is already home to a wide range of truly bizarre and wonderful creatures but as these images prove there may be a lot more we don’t know about.
Aliens or just unheard of? You be the judge on these cases.
'Anyone see this in the sky?'
Tongues were wagging in July 2025 when a user on Reddit posted an image of the sky with what appeared to be flashing lights.
"Saw this around 6:15 today- thought it was a plane at first but became 3 distinct lights, with one glowing spherical light rising up out of the other two. Presume it was just something burning up in the atmosphere," they wrote.
One reply read: "Saw a bright flash in the sky like sheet lightning then not long after these posts started. Also seen multiple bright flashes since."
Other replies speculated it could be overseas rockets ... or maybe something else entirely.
Expert baffled by weird ‘creature’
A mystery “creature” that washed up on two separate Noosa beaches in October 2022 caused much discussion on social media as one expert guessed at its origin.
Sunrise Beach resident Rob Watson was taking a lunchtime walk on October 4 when he stumbled across the “creature or organic matter” between Sunrise and Sunshine beaches.
He said it was about 0.5m long and guessed it weighed about 20kg.
Mr Watson said it was creamy white, it had no odour despite “sitting in the sun for a good few hours”, there was nothing attached to it and there was no blood.
“What I did spot there seemed to be puncture wounds in there so my gut feel is that a shark has attacked it and it’s been washed in,” he said.
Queensland Museum ichthyology biodiversity program collection manager Jeff Johnson said at a guess, and in the absence of a physical examination, its overall appearance seemed most consistent with the internal organs of a vertebrate.
Real life Death Star
An Upper Coomera man was perplexed when he saw a bright light that looked like the “Death Star” in the Gold Coast skyline on July 7, 2023.
47-year-old Jarod Crook recorded the footage while we was walking to the pub along Old Coach Rd, when he saw there were no stars in the sky, but just a bright unusual object.
“It just looked like a star, but a very, very bright one. And the reason why I took a picture of it was because there were no other stars in the sky,” he said.
“ … And then when we take the picture that comes out, that circle with the three (rings) looks like the Death Star.
“ … I don’t know what it is. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve camped all my life but I’ve never seen anything like that.”
Aliens, drones, UFOs?
In January 2025 residents claimed recent sightings of orbs in the sky were aliens.
Gracie Johnson said she frequently sees three orbs near her home, roughly 50km from Ipswich on a 16-acre property, which she described as “surreal”.
Ms Johnson had been spotting strange lights in the sky since late November and says the lights are too bright to be drones.
“You look out and you know they are not a star,” she said.
“They’re bright and on the horizon.”
Aliens captured in photo
On April 3, 2023 Cairns-based Charles Budby and his wife took a photo of the sunset while they waited for their dinner at the Civic Shopping Centre car park on Sheridan St when Mrs Budby saw something unusual in the picture her husband had taken.
Cairns man Charles Budby found an unidentified flying object in a photo he took of the clouds while waiting for dinner at the Civic Shopping Centre on McLeod Street.
“I zoomed in and it’s not a plane or floating balloon, just something you can only see in the photo,” Mr Budby said.
Animal find leaves man puzzled
The mystery of an “alien-like” creature found washed up on a beach in Queensland was solved in March 2022.
Alex Tan, 28, discovered the remains of a four-limbed animal on Maroochydore Beach.
The bizarre creature appeared to have a reptile-like skull and a tail, as well as what looked like four hands.
Calling it “an alien”, Mr Tan said he was unsure what he had found – but vowed to buy a chicken parmigiana for whoever could explain definitely what it was.
Step forward University of Queensland Associate Professor Stephen Johnston said the animal was most likely a swollen, waterlogged brushtail possum.
“The skull and hindlimb give the clues,” he said.
“The animal was probably washed down into the ocean during the floods.”
It is not clear whether Mr Tan has bought the professor a parmie.
UFO or light fixture?
John Gordon was visiting his family on the Gold Coast in September 2022 when he spotted something strange out the window above the Q1 tower.
Mr Gordon said he was taking a picture of the view when he looked at the image later and saw what appeared to be a flying saucer in the Gold Coast sky.
However, many people were quick to point out what appeared to be a UFO, could potentially just be a reflection from a light fixture inside the room.
Mr Gordon denies these claims and points to a picture his niece took later that day of the same window, showing a dark solid object in the sky from a different angle.
Claim aliens are mutilating cows
Strange things were happening on a remote farm in Central Queensland in April 2023.
Six months earlier, graziers Judy and Mick Cook woke up to find one of their cows mutilated in a way that defied easy explanation.
The udder, cheek and tongue had been cleanly removed with no traces of blood, or marks showing any movement around the cow.
Judy claimed it was the work of aliens.
“How is it happening? It must have something that lifts it up and puts it down and doesn’t leave any marks” she said.
“(Aliens are) the only explanation I have got.”
Judy said other animals on their property were also wary of the dead cow and would not go near it.
“She just rotted away and nothing would touch her,” she said.
This was not the first time the Cooks had lost cows to bizarre mutilations.
The couple run about 1100 cattle on a 14,600 hectare property west of Eungella, and in the past 18 years Judy estimated they had lost 20 cows in the same striking manner: organs removed with surgical precision and no blood.
‘Sea vomit’ creature washes up in Hervey Bay
A Hervey Bay man in July 2020 posted a photo of a bizarre creature that left everyone baffled.
Shared on the Environmental Conservation Organisation SCF Australia Facebook page, the image showed a creature that looked like a jellyfish but had a wide mouth and small hair-like tentacles.
One commenter called it “sea vomit” while others insisted it was a jellyfish.
Scary skeletal remains found on beach
Grotesque skeletal remains washed up on a beach in Keppel Sands in July 2023.
In a social media post beachgoer Bobbi-Lee Oates asked if anyone had any idea what the creature may have once been.
“We came across this, wondering if anyone has any idea what it is or who I could possibly get to find out exactly what it is,” the post read.
Queenslanders were quick to jokingly speculate the remains of a mermaid, or a siren may have been discovered.
Most commenters believed the skeleton may have been a dugong, sea lion or a dolphin.
James Cook University Environmental Science Emeritus Professor Helene Marsh assessed the photos and said it was “definitely a decomposing marine mammal”.
Pulsating light in Bundy sky
Experts became intrigued after a Bundaberg man, Brad Trotter, captured footage of a large, bright, “pulsating” object in the sky in October 2021, changing colour numerous times from green, white, orange and red.
During the time the video was unveiled, other locals claimed they also saw the object, coinciding with storm activity in the region.
Mary Rodwell, a UFO expert and author reviewed the footage and said “no doubt it’s a UFO, not a star”.
Ms Rodwell had previously told Bundaberg’s NewsMail in 2012 that there had been increased sightings of unexplained phenomena in Bundaberg, stating “There have been some people who have reported ‘missing time’ on the road between Rosedale and Bundaberg, where the trip has taken a lot longer than expected”.
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