A Mission Beach couple swear they saw at least four unidentified flying objects hovering over the ocean between their beach home and Dunk Island in the early hours of this morning.

Debbie, 49, who asked for her surname to be withheld, said she let her dog Zoe outside of their Garner's Beach home about 5am to relieve herself when the Bull Arab started barking and looking up at the sky.

"I looked up and for some strange reason this big light caught my eye," she told couriermail.com.au.

"I thought it was a plane flying low but it was this really intense, big light. Then I thought it must be a helicopter with a search light looking for someone over the ocean.

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