The unusual sighting by angler Mark Watkins had them thinking it was another craft – until they got closer and learnt the disgusting truth
A fisherman has captured bizarre images of an unidentified alien creature he spotted while out on his boat – which turned out to be a WHALE.
Australian skipper Mark Watkins was confused by the bulbous shape protruding from the water.
First he suspected it was a boat, or maybe a hot air balloon.
But the disgusting truth became clearer as he got closer – and smelled the rotting whale for himself.
Off the coast of Bunbury in Western Australia, Mr Watkins and his father snapped the mammal in an advanced stage of decomposition and posted the images online.
“Its stomach was full of gas so it was all bloated up,” he told the West Australian.
“When we got closer we realised it had to be a dead whale because of the smell.”
The 36-year-old says that it’s the strangest thing he’s seen in 21 years of angling.
He added that they had a great white shark of between 11.5ft and 13ft around the boat that day.
Although he did not see the creature near the whale, he added that on the boat’s return, the dead animal looked to have been bitten into and was no longer inflated.