U.S. company DigitalGlobe said Thursday that it has provided the Australian government with satellite imagery showing objects in the southern Indian Ocean that might be debris of a missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

"We can confirm that DigitalGlobe has provided imagery to search officials in Australia, and we have been informed by an Australian government official that it was our imagery Prime Minister Abbott referred to in his recent comments," DigitalGlobe told Xinhua in an emailed statement.

Noting that it has no further information, DigitalGlobe pledged to "continue to cooperate with authorities to provide any and all information" to assist the search, said the U.S. provider of high-resolution satellite images.

Earlier Thursday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament that new satellite images showed two objects some 2,500 km southwest of the Australian port of Perth. The discovery, he said, could be new and credible information as the location was in the swath of possible paths of Flight MH370 that went missing two weeks ago.

Australia dispatched a Royal Australian Air Force P3 Orion to search relevant waters but failed to locate the objects due to cloud and rain.

The Boeing 777-200 aircraft, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, including 154 Chinese, went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Search and rescue operations involving a total of 26 countries have been carried out ever since but all efforts have proved to be futile so far. Endi

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