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.
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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.
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.
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.
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”.
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