Did the US space agency just release a photo of an alien from Mars? This question has been trending online after social media users spotted a strange-looking object in a photo shared by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The image, originally captured by NASA’s Opportunity rover in 2014, has recently gone viral due to a strange-looking object, which netizens are now describing as an “alien weapon.”
Scott C. Waring, who runs the UFO-focused website UFO Sightings Daily, has claimed that NASA has removed all other images that had possible hints of extraterrestrial technology.
In a post on X, Waring said: “Photos of alien weapons on Mars, only one still exists, others removed by NASA.”
His comments were immediately debunked by another X user, who wrote: “I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure this is a rock.”
NASA has also maintained that it has no evidence of extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. The space agency’s explorers have not yet discovered signs of current or past life on Mars.
The Opportunity rover, launched in January 2004 to search for geological evidence of water that once existed on Mars, went dormant in July 2018. After multiple failures to establish contact with the robot, NASA declared its mission completed in February 2019.
