Metallic space balls found on Australian beach

Mysterious metal spheres washed ashore in Australia, and officials say they’re literal space balls — but with no known connection to Mel Brooks’ “Spaceballs.”

Mysterious metal spheres washed ashore on a northern Australia beach, and officials say the unidentified floating objects are literal space balls — although there’s no known affiliation with the Mel Brooks comedy classic “Spaceballs.”

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Several of the metallic objects were discovered on Forrest Beach, a small quiet coastal town in Queensland, the Australian Space Agency announced Sunday on X.

The unknown objects were later identified as “space debris” by the ASA, most likely from a rocket that recently re-entered Earth’s atmosphere from orbit.