A mysterious cylindrical object found on a remote Australian beach this month is a piece of debris from an Indian rocket, Australia’s space agency announced on Monday. This means that it is not — as some people had speculated online — a piece of a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared over the Indian Ocean in 2014, or a U.F.O. “We have concluded the object located on a beach near Jurien Bay in Western Australia is most likely debris from an expended third-stage of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle,” the Australian Space Agency said on social media. The object is in storage, the agency said, noting that it was working with the Indian Space Research Organization to decide what to do next. A 1968 United Nations agreement requires countries to return recovered space debris to the country that owned it.

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Organizations: Malaysia Airlines, Australian Space Agency, Indian Space Research Organization Locations: Jurien Bay, Western Australia, Nations