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| The paper towel was found in July last year, but the discovery has only just become public knowledge |
The small, unopened, pre-moistened towel has been dispatched to Canberra for testing and verification, Nine News has reported.
If it is identified as being from the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the small paper towel will be the first scrap of evidence from the doomed plane.
The Boeing 777 aircraft –with 239 passengers and crew on board – vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 last year.
A record-breaking international search operation for the missing passenger plane has been taking place over the past 12 months in the Indian Ocean.
Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak told mourning families he was still "hopeful" the Boeing 777 would be found.
Cervantes residents Kingsley and Vicki Miller stumbled across the towelette branded with a Malaysia Airlines logo some 125miles north of Perth.
The couple told Nine News the discovery was "very unusual".
They added: "If it had of been opened and found lying there it would have been completely different".
The paper towel was found in July last year, but the discovery has only just become public knowledge.
Officials have said it is "unlikely" the Malaysia Airlines towelette will definitely be linked back to the missing plane.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau told Agence-France Press: "A 6cm x 8cm moist towelette in wrapping branded with the Malaysia Airlines logo was found at Thirsty Point on 2 July, 2014.
"It was handed in to the WA [Western Australia] police.
"It is unlikely, however, that such a common item with no unique identifier could be conclusively linked with MH370."
The ongoing search for Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 has been narrowed to a patch of ocean floor some 1,000 miles from the coast of Perth.
Source: Express UK
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