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A “glitch” has been blamed for an eerie image on Google Maps which appeared to show a passenger plane sitting on a North Queensland mountain range.

The plane could be seen in the Cardwell Ranges, but did not appear to be damaged in any way, suggesting it was either landed or flying much lower than would be expected.

The aircraft had no markings and was not on any known flight paths.

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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it was not aware of any missing passenger jets, according to the Cairns Post.

This isn’t the first time that something strange has popped up on Google..

Last year, a mysterious object was spotted on Google Earth by a Reddit user who believes it was a “crashed UFO”.

User dansterdj believed he spotted a strangely shaped object, that is suspiciously followed by a trail of sand, on Starbuck Island, Kiribati, a Pacific island nation northeast of Australia.

In his post, captioned “Crashed UFO on Starbuck Island”, the Redditor explained his theory to the 1.6 million members in the popular Reddit forum “conspiracy”, The Sun reported.

“Visible on Google Earth showing a massive trail behind the object indicating high velocity and great amount of energy to go that far,” he wrote.

His suggestion that the object was a “crashed UFO” sparked a stream of comments on the site online where fellow conspiracy theorists speculated how the odd object ended up there.

“Doesn’t look as much like an impact as it does like it was rolled or dragged there,” one user commented.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it is largely cut off from the influence of human life after Kiribati officials designated the island as a wildlife sanctuary.

This information prompted others to theorise that the object may have belonged to a shipwreck – with the long sand lines indicating where it had been dragged by people.

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In 2016, another ghostly image of a plane appeared in Minnesota, the United Stes, with a spokeswoman telling the StarTribune: “Fast-moving objects like planes often show up in only one of the many images we use for a given area.

“When this happens, faint remnants of the fast-moving object can sometimes be seen.”

News.com.au has contacted Google for comment.

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