Crab-like 'alien facehugger' in a cave is spotted on Mars in latest bizarre claim by conspiracy theo

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Crab-like 'alien facehugger' in a cave is spotted on Mars in latest bizarre claim by conspiracy theorists

• 'Crab' was seen in a Nasa image taken by the Curiosity rover
• Scientists say these strange sightings are often a case of pareidolia
• This desribes a response to seeing familar objects in random places

From ancient pyramids to military bunkers, there's not much conspiracy theorists haven't seen on Mars.

Now, in their latest bizarre sighting, alien hunters say they have spotted a mysterious 'facehugger crab' on the red planet.

Since the image was uploaded on Facebook, a number of people have said it looks like the facehugger monster shown in the 1979 film, Alien.

The 'crab' can be seen in an image taken by the Mars rover Curiosity, which shows a formation that looks like a cave mouth on the red planet.
The photo was taken by Nasa in July but recently appeared in Facebook group 'Journey to the Surface of the Mars', who has the slogan: 'They will not tell the truth about Mars'.

Seth Shostak, director of the Centre for SETI Research said this is probably a case of pareidolia.
This is the psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random stimulus.

Some have said the 'crab' on Mars is simliar to that shown in the 1979 film, Alien (pictured). Others say it may be an 'alien spider'​

It is a form of apophenia, which is when people see patterns or connections in random, unconnected data.

Human eyes can spot faces within their environment and it helps them recognise friends in a crowd, work out how fast a car is travelling, and see patterns.

Scientists claim we also tend to use this ability to 'enrich our imagination' and recognise meaningful shapes, even when they're not there.

'Those that send [images] to me are generally quite excited, as they claim that these frequently resemble something you wouldn't expect to find on the rusty, dusty surface of the red planet,' said Shostak.

'It's usually some sort of animal, but occasionally even weirder objects such as automobile parts. Maybe they think there are cars on Mars.'

He added: 'Recognising a crab in a landscape filled with wind-weathered rocks is no more surprising - nor more significant - than seeing a winking face in a semi-colon followed by a parenthesis. '

Crab-like 'alien facehugger' in a cave is spotted on Mars by conspiracy theorists | Daily Mail Online

 

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The Mars Curiosity Rover has taken a strange image of a crab-like object on the red planet

THE Mars Curiosity Rover has taken a strange image that has left space enthusiasts captivated.

Captured by NASA, the image shows a crab-like object on the surface of the red planet.

Since emerging online, social media has been abuzz with users claiming the finding is proof of alien life.

However, scientists have been quick to offer a logical explanation for the mystery object by attributing it to a phenomenon called pareidolia.

Senior astronomer at the Centre for SETI Research Seth Shostak explained it was the same phenomenon that causes peoples brains to see shapes in clouds.

“Recognising a crab in a landscape filled with wind-weathered rocks is no more surprising — nor more significant — than seeing a winking face in a semicolon followed by a parenthesis,” he told the Mirror.

Mr Shostak said images such as this were nothing new, claiming he is sent at least one a week.

“Those that send them to me are generally quite excited, as they claim that these frequently resemble something you wouldn’t expect to find on the rusty, dusty surface of the Red Planet,” he said.

“It’s usually some sort of animal, but occasionally even weirder objects such as automobile parts. Maybe they think there are cars on Mars.”

NASA Mars Curiosity photo shows alien crab?

Space crab? Mars object in NASA pics totally thrills red planet fans

“Spider”, “Alien”, “John Carter”, “awesome Martian space crab” – these are a few suggestions by social media users who apparently thoroughly studied a recent NASA image of Mars which captured a strange object on the surface of the red planet.
The raw image taken by NASA Curiosity somewhere in July was hugely discussed in the Facebook group ‘Journey to the Surface of the Mars’.

“Now this one is AWESOME!!!” wrote the group whose slogan is “They will not tell the truth about MARS.” They even enlarged the NASA image and so that the world could have a better look of ‘the creature’.

“It looks a human kind of face in a type spider body!”, “It's a door”, “John Carter”: users’ imaginations ran unrestrained (John Carter of Mars is a fictional character by Edgar Rice Burroughs).

Some fans of Ridley Scott movies also drew parallels with the organism from Alien franchise.

This is not the first ‘suspected’ image of Mars surface that disturbed social media and even scientists. Earlier in July Curiosity Mars rover found a rock unlike anything it found before, which could contain organic material.

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NASA said that it was “bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica [a rock-forming compound containing silicon and oxygen, commonly found on Earth as quartz]."

“High levels of silica in the rock could indicate ideal conditions for preserving ancient organic material, if present, so the science team wants to take a closer look,” NASA wrote.

Conspiracy theories also appeared around one of raw images taken by Curiosity which showed an alleged pyramid on the Red Planet

“Due to the size of the object about the scale of a small car I would theorize that the artefact is either the capstone of a much larger pyramid possibly buried deep beneath the surface or perhaps a marker stone,” wrote Paranormal Crucible YouTube account which analyses extraterrestrial activity and speculated on the origins of the ‘pyramid’.

The ufologists also found a “levitating alien sphere” on Mars which was recorded by the rover's Mast Camera on April 10, 2015.

“This is ancient technology, and it’s still floating above the surface today. No one knows how old it is, but we do know that it came from a very technologically-advanced species. It has, the ultimate battery,” a statement from the UFO Sightings Daily, a website devoted to possible UFO detections on or above our planet.

These ‘artefacts’, however, in most cases are just a vision defect called pareidolia, a psychological phenomenon of noticing a significant pattern in unexpected places. The ‘man in the moon’ or ‘moon rabbit’ are common examples of such an illusion.

Space crab? Mars object in NASA pics totally thrills red planet fans — RT News

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[Star Wars]

Aliens are real !!

 

[Pandora]

Looks like meteorite hit a hard rocky surface hence the splash. Do these idiots ever wonder that if rover had found something then NASA would be first to claim it.

 

[C130]

it's probably nothing, but it does look out of place. weird.

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

Since the image was uploaded on Facebook, a number of people have said it looks like the facehugger monster shown in the 1979 film, Alien.

Source of original image please.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Aliens are real !!

@isro2222 already confirmed that.

 

[Koovie]

Here they come!