Lately it seems like everyday we get a new bizarre photo from the Mars Curiosity Rover. From conspiracy theorists to non-believers alike, in the last few weeks the media has reported on sightings of alien crab-martians, strange women, and crashed spaceships – to name a few.
Today, more new sightings have hit the internet – and they are even crazier more interesting than what we have “seen” in the last few weeks.
From Express.co.uk:
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So-called alien researchers scour through images beamed back by Nasa’s Curiosity Rover – a four-wheel drive robot that is scouring the surface of the Red Planet inch by inch looking for clues of any former life and photographing and sampling the surface.
The latest “finds” join a long list of other Earthly items found on Mars, including bones, fossils, aliens dead and alive, a Martian Mount Rushmore, and ancient Egyptian-style pyramids, carvings and ruins.
Nasa usually stays tight-lipped on the discoveries, causing excited UFO chasers to scream conspiracy theory that the US space agency is “covering up the truth”.
One prolific conspiracist is Scott C Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily who collates his own Martian discoveries and those of others on its website.
In a new post he said: “There is a life form looking over a rock at the Mars rover. It looks like it has a single long eye, two long bent arms and a thin body. The legs are not visible behind the rock.
There are also some other interesting discoveries I made. I found another reptilian head that looks like a lizard. I found two more ships.
“There is a also a head looking up at the sky which looks aquatic, because it has a fin for an ear.
There is so much evidence of intelligent life in this NASA photo, its really amazing that the public hasn’t done this kind of research long ago.”
Scientists have dismissed such “finds” as the effects of pareidolia – a phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects in patterns and textures such as rock surfaces.
But due to the increased intensity of such discoveries and claims Nasa is covering something up, the space agency has broken its silence.
Ashwin Vasavada, who is on the Mars rover project, denied there was any sort of cover up and the agency would be delighted to discover evidence of life on Mars.
He said: “There is no group that would be happier to see such a thing than the 500 scientists around the world who work on this Curiosity rover.
“So far we haven’t seen anything that is so obvious that it would be similar to what these claims are.”
He also blamed pareidolia.
He added: “We have colour HD cameras on this rover that far exceed anything ever sent to the planet before.”
