The dreadful ‘alien’ that washed up on an Australian beach has finally been identified

We’re sure Alex Tan didn’t expect to come across what he mistook for an alien on his morning walk on the Sunshine Coast, but…hello, 2022.

The bewildered Queensland guy posted video of the strange critter on social media, and boy, did it get people talking.

“I’ve discovered something strange,” the Christian preacher can be heard stating in the footage.

“This is similar to what you see when someone claim to have discovered aliens.”

The camera then zoomed over to a bloated body with rat-like claws, a decomposing head, and a very long tail.

But don’t worry, we’re not being attacked from another galaxy.

Associate Professor Stephen Johnston of the University of Queensland recognised the strange-looking insect.

Tan’s concerns were verified by the Professor, who told the Courier-Mail that the animal was most likely a bloated, wet brushtail possum.

“The skull and hindlimb give the clues,” he explained.

“The animal was most likely swept down into the ocean during the rains.”

The 28-year-old dead-possum-finder had sworn on social media that he would offer a pub supper to any expert who could correctly identify the species.

In other unsolved extraterrestrial riddles, a Sydney-based LAD went on a jog last month and came across a pretty strange – and very dead – item on the road.

“My instinct tells me it’s an embryo, but with Covid, World War III, and the floods [that are] happening right now, it might very well be an extraterrestrial,” Harry Hayes told LADbible Australia.

LADbible asked the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales to identify this species; however, no professor has been able to officially confirm the creature’s identification as of yet.

Across the Pacific, horrified beachgoers in California were astonished by a jet-black monster washed up on the beach with a gaping underbite, jagged teeth, and a tentacle-covered appendage and bulb emerging from its head.

Scientists from San Diego’s Institution of Oceanography University recognised it as a Pacific football fish, a deep-sea resident, according to the Guardian, but we’ve identified it.