The idea that NASA has encountered Alien life during the Apollo missions has aroused the curiosity of thousands of experts in the field for decades.
Ever since NASA successfully landed on the moon, people have wondered whether or not the astronauts on the lunar surface—and during their trip to the moon—witnessed things they couldn’t rationally explain.
In other words; Alien spaceships and structures on the moon’s surface.
These questions were quickly turned into a conspiracy theory, and people who argue that the Apollo astronauts witnessed inexplicable things during their trip to the moon were called out as conspiracy nuts.
To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the surface of Moon, with the last Apollo mission departing the lunar surface in December 1972.
Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Image credit: NASA
For nearly half a century—46 years to be precise—space agencies around the globe have avoided going to the moon.
But why?
Was it due to extremely high costs? Risks? Or is it that the moon is simply not an interesting place?
The truth is that today, 46 years after the last successful moon landing we have much better technology than we had 46 years ago.
Money isn’t an issue, for we always find money for things we want and need.
The moon is perhaps one of the most interesting places in the solar system, and numerous experts have claimed it is imperative for humans to establish a colony on the lunar surface.
So, what’s keeping us from landing on the moon?
A man called Bob Dean may answer the above question.
Mr. Dean is retired US Army Command Sergeant Major who served for 28 years.
He has given a number of interesting lectures, providing a wealth of information about not only the moon landings, Apollo missions, but also corroborating what numerous whistleblowers have said in the past.
During the Barcelona Exopolitics Summit, on July 25, 2009, Mr. Dean released a set of amazing images. He also explained the Apollo missions, and what astronauts encountered unlike anyone before him.
During the summit, Mr. Dean released to the public a set of fascinating images supposedly captured by astronauts of the Apollo 12 mission, including an image showing mysterious spacecraft several hundred feet in diameter.
During the lecture, Mr. Dean recounts how on the morning of the 2nd of February 1961, World War III almost began, and a fleet of unidentified flying objects were to blame:
“It appears that on the morning of the 2nd of February 1961, World War III almost started. It was involved in the flyover of large numbers of circular metallic craft, flying in formation, very obviously under intelligent control,” said Mr. Dean during the lecture.
Mr. Dean continued: “They would fly out of the Soviet sector in the Warsaw Pact toward the U.S. in formation at a high speed and at a very high altitude. They would turn north over the English Channel over the southern coast of England and then they would disappear off of NATO radar over the Norwegian Sea.”
“The Soviets went on red alert. The NATO forces went on red alert. Everybody was, you know … fingers on their triggers, thumbs poised above those red buttons. And World War III was just moments away,” explained Mr. Dean. “Within 20 minutes, it was all over. The objects flew, turned north and disappeared off of radar.”
Soon after the mysterious sighting that nearly triggered WWIII, a study of the occurred took place.
Experts concluded how “…planet Earth and the human race had been under some kind of survey or observation going on for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. They concluded, in 1964, that there were at least four different groups coming here, observing us, surveying us, analyzing us, closely watching us, what we were up to, what we were doing. They concluded that it did not appear to be a military threat involved, because their repeated demonstrations of incredibly advanced technology demonstrated to us that, if they had been hostile or malevolent, there was absolutely nothing we could do. If they were evil in their intent and they were hostile toward us, it would have been over a long time ago.”
“…the conclusion was there were four different groups involved,” explained Mr. Dean.
The next image, says Mr. Dean, shows a mysterious disc-shaped object with several hundred feet in diameter. It was snapped while astronauts made their way to the surface of the moon.
The next two images were taken by Apollo Astronauts when they were overflying the so-called Lansberg crater. According to Mr. Dean; “The astronauts in orbit above the Moon were particularly fascinated by the Lansberg crater. They had been given a special designation to take pictures of Lansberg, because the crater, which they named as the Lansberg, had things going on that were very anomalous. There was construction going on. There were gigantic facilities in the crater up there. So they were specifically delegated and assigned to photograph Lansberg to see if they could figure out what the hell was going on down there. While they were looking at Lansberg, this object happened to express interest in them and flew by. Now this line is an artificial line that was drawn to show you the … it gave the direction that this object was going. This is a good-size object flying past the Apollo Lander.”
Are these mysterious spots alien structures on the lunar surface?
Mr. Dean continued showing evidence gathered by astronauts from the Apollo 13 mission. The below image, says Mr. Dean, where taken as Apollo 13 astronauts were traveling to the moon when a number of things began happening. Some strange objects were appearing outside the windows of the spacecraft, so the Apollo 13 Astronauts grabbed their Hasselblad cameras and started taking pictures of what they had seen.
This photograph below shows three different objects.
Another image of the Apollo 13 ‘UFO’ encounter, as noted by Mr. Dean.
Read the entire transcript and view more images here.
The sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), into space. They often occur together with sudden brightenings called flares, and sometimes extend far enough to disturb Earth’s magnetosphere, generating space weather phenomena including auroras or geomagnetic storms, and even damaging power grids on occasion.
That sounds just ludicrous, doesn’t it? But is it crazy?
You’d be surprised by the answer.
The Great Pyramid of Giza hides many secrets. In fact, despite the fact that it was (according to mainstream scholars) built some four thousand years ago, we have still not unraveled all its mysteries.
The Great Pyramid of Giza. Image Credit: Shutterstock.
Thousands of years ago, the Great Pyramid of Giza was erected in modern-day Egypt.
The result? A stunning ancient monument home to many mysteries, yet few answers.
Despite having studied, researched and explored the pyramid for centuries, mainstream scholars have been unable to understand how the builders of the structure managed to erect such a precise monument, thousands of years ago, without the use of modern tools and technologies.
An even greater mystery is how the Pyramid’s builders erected what was long considered as the most accurately aligned structure in existence, facing true north with only 3/60th of a degree of error.
However, not only is this ancient monument one of the most accurately aligned buildings on the surface of the planet, there are countless other details that make it even more stunning.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
Did you now that, somehow, thousands of years ago, the ancient builders of the Pyramid used more than 2,300,000 stone blocks that weigh from 2 to 50 tons each to build a structure that would stand the test of time?
If that fact did not arouse your curiosity, did you know that the base of the pyramid covers 55,000 m2? And that the outer mantle was composed of 144,000 casing stones, all of them highly polished and flat to an accuracy of 1/100th of an inch, about 100 inches thick and weighing approximately 15 tons each?
Stunning characteristics of a structure built thousands of years ago
However, did you know that the Great Pyramid of Giza contains enough stone to build a wall around the Earth?
Yeah, it’s not fake news, not craziness, and not me trying to write up a cool article, all of my articles are cool.
So yeah after this claim, you’d ask… where’s the proof?
Show me proof.
Ok.
Let’s get the facts straight.
The height of the Great Pyramid is 139 meters. The Great Pyramid has a width of 230m.
Our planet’s circumference is 40,075,000m.
2 feet in meters: 0.6096m
So, the volume of the Pyramid is:
2302 * 139 * (1/3) = 2,451,033 m3 = 2.4 x106 m3
Suppose the width of the wall is X m.
Then, the volume of the wall is: (40,075,000 * 0.6096) * X = 24,429,720 * X m3 ~ 24×106 * X m3
Now since 2.4×106 / 24×106 = 0.1, we have that, for the statement to be true, the width of the wall must be no wider than 10cm or about 0.33 feet. Source
Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike regular matter, it reacts weakly or not at all with light. Neutrinos satisfy these two criteria, but neutrinos move through space at nearly the speed of light, making them a form of hot dark matter. The observations we have suggest that dark matter is cold.
The history of our planet is full of incredible mysteries. The more we search and research, the more mysteries we uncover. And despite the fact that archaeologists and scientists work hard to figure everything out, we know very little about our past.
As Best Selling author Graham Hancock has said, we are a species with amnesia.
Proof of this is the countless discoveries that have been made throughout the years, which question our beliefs, the4 fundaments of society, and the capabilities of ancient civilizations.
Here, in this article, we bring you some of the most inexplicable, and history-challenging discoveries that have been made on Earth.
Aerial view of Sacsayhuaman.
Sacsayhuamán
Sacsayhuamán is without a doubt one of the most incredible ancient sites ever discovered on the planet. Why? Not only because of the history of this ancient city but because of the supermassive stones used in its construction.
The ceremonial complex is well-known for its impeccable masonry that is so precise that engineers today have no clue how it was made.
Some of the stones at Sacsayhuamán are so perfectly fitted that not a single sheet of paper can fit in between.
The Gate of the Sun. Image credit: Shutterstock.
The Gate of The Sun ( Puerta del Sol)
The Gate of the Sun is a megalithic solid stone arch or gateway located in Tiwanaku, an ancient mysterious city located in Bolivia.
Archaeologists believe this ancient city was the center of a vast empire during the first millennium AD.
And despite the fact that we know a lot about South American ancient civilizations, researchers are still not able to figure out the meaning of some of the drawings that are enshrined in the monuments of the ancient city.
Some experts believe these depictions have a great astrological and astronomical value, while other authors believe it is a gateway to another world.
The interior of the Longyou caves.
The Longyou Caves
The Longyou Caves are out of this world. This incredible set of caves is little talked about.
The Longyou Caves are a set of artificial caves that are believed to be at least 2000 years old and happen to be one of the largest structures ever excavated by man.
Researchers have been baffled by the size and precision of the caves.
Archaeologists, engineers, architects, and geologists from around the world have tried to figure out how, why and when were these artificial caves were built, but no one has offered a single solution to the many mysteries surrounding the caves.
Some argue that this ancient complex is a natural wonder.
The underwater city of Yonaguni – Japan
Referred to as Japans Atlantis, some authors argue the Yonaguni complex is an ancient monument left behind by an ancient civilization that existed on Earth before the last Ice Age.
These alleged ancient remains were discovered accidentally by scuba instructor Khachiro Arataki.
Some underwater archaeologists, as well as many authors, refer to this ancient complex as one of the most important underwater discoveries in recent years.
The discovery of the Yonaguni complex has questioned several scientific theories.
The incredibly carved rock sank is believed to have sunken more than 12,000 years ago, much before the Ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids.
Mainstream archaeology and science argue that no advanced civilizations existed on Earth before the last Ice Age and that ancient mankind was not able to carve such a complex structure.
The archaeological site of Mohenjo Daro is considered by many ancient astronaut theorists as one of the best examples of ancient alien contact.
The destruction of this once great city has been a mystery for archaeologists and experts for decades.
Ancient Astronaut theorists claim that thousands of years ago, advanced alien civilizations visited Earth, and nuclear bombs were used to destroy this city.
The city was discovered in 1992 when Indian archaeologist R. Banardzhi found the ancient ruins on the banks of the Indus River.
Questions such as the cause of the destruction and the fate of its inhabitants remain a mystery to scholars.
Some researchers have postulated theories that this city was destroyed by the gods, with “advanced nuclear weapons.”
The underground city of Derinkuyu. Image Credit: Shutterstock.
The underground city of Derinkuyu
Another incredible feat of ancient engineering. Thousands of years ago, ancient people excavated hundreds of meters into the Earth, building one of the greatest ancient underground cities on Earth.
This incredible underground city has challenged the views and theories of archaeologists and engineers ever since its discovery.
Many mysteries engulf this underground city. No one has been able to understand why and how it was built.
While some authors indicate it was created to protect its inhabitants from climate change, extreme temperatures or even war, there are others who believe that its purpose is far more mysterious.
The elaboration of the spheres began around 300 AD.
Giant Stone Spheres
These giant stone spheres have been present from Costa Rica to Bosnia & Herzegovina, they come in all sorts of sizes. They were first found in South America in the 1930s by workers who were clearing jungle to make way for a plantation of bananas.
South American legends say that hidden within the rocks are unimaginable treasures. This has led to the destruction of many of these spheres by people who did not recognize their historical value. Despite the fact that many of these spheres were destroyed, no one has ever found anything inside them. Similar spheres can be found in Europe in Bosnia & Herzegovina near Visoko.
No one can explain what these giant stone spheres are made for.
Many researchers believe that there are several pieces of evidence pointing towards the existence of highly advanced ancient civilizations that existed on Earth millions of years ago.
14 million-year-old vehicle tracks
According to a researcher called Dr. Koltypin, millions of years ago advanced technologies existed on Earth, and the traces we see in the above image were left behind by vehicles 14 million years ago
As noted by Russian Geologists, these mysterious traces are at least 14 million old and were left behind by “vehicles” that belonged to a currently “unknown ancient civilization” that inhabited our planet in the past.
Many researchers believe that we are not the first society to rule over this planet. In fact, a number of authors have claimed that many other advanced civilizations called this planet home in the past.
According to Dr. Koltypin and many other archaeologists, which have adopted new ways of thinking, these ancient “car tracks” are one of the best-preserved pieces of evidence which undoubtedly prove the existence of highly advanced ancient civilizations that inhabited our planet in the distant past.
The mysterious Natural Nuclear Reactor.
2 billion-year-old Natural Nuclear Reactor
In 1972, researchers confirmed the discovery of a set of Natural Nuclear Reactors in Gabon. Ever since, scientists have scratched their heads trying to understand how it is possible that these nuclear reactors developed in Gabon two billion years ago, and did not come into existence at any other place on the Planet.
As claimed by experts, more than two billion years ago, parts of the African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. According to scientists, this mysterious “natural” nuclear reactor had the ability to produce modest energy. Scientists estimate the Oklo reactors would have had samples with roughly 3.6% uranium-235 — that’s close to the enrichment threshold of modern nuclear reactors.
A Massive knife discovered underwater
Not much can be found about this mysterious image, but we’ll include it just for fun.
We see a massive knife, held by three scuba drivers somewhere on Earth’s ocean.
The image has been widely shared among people on social networks, and many consider it evidence that, before written history, perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, giants walked on Earth.
More than likely, it’s a prop that ended up somehow in the ocean, but who knows for sure?
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Japan’s space agency successfully launched Sunday its most powerful flagship H3 rocket, carrying a newly developed unmanned cargo spacecraft for its first mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
On October 18, 2025, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, obtained its first light. This milestone is a crucial step in the life of any telescope, marking the moment it is ready to begin its scientific journey.
2.8 Billion-Year-Old Spheres balanced within one-hundred thousandths of an inch from absolute perfection have created confusion among experts.
They vary in size from 30 – 50 mm in diameter and have perfectly concentric grooves around the center as if they were molded. Inside the hard “shell” some have a spongy substance, while in others it resembles charcoal.
Man-Made Artifacts, or the result of mother nature?
Called the Klerksdorp spheres, the enigmatic artifacts are considered by many authors as the ultimate evidence of pre-human civilizations existing on Earth billions of years ago.
However, given their controversial age, mainstream scholars argue they are the product of mother nature.
The Spheroid objects found in Africa date back to a time when humans did not exist on Earth. The mystery objects are elliptical in shape with rough ridges around the center.
Having curious ‘design’ elements on their surface, some authors have argued that the enigmatic spheres are the result of intelligent design.
Side view of typical calcareous concretions, which exhibit equatorial grooves, found in Schoharie County, New York. The cube, for scale, is one centimeter cubed. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
According to Michael Cremo (Michael A. Cremo (born July 15, 1948), also known by his devotional name Drutakarmā dāsa, is an American freelance researcher who identifies himself as a Vedic creationist and an “alternative archaeologist”) and other researchers of prehistoric culture, these spheres add to a body of evidence suggesting intelligent life existed on Earth long before a conventional view of history places it here.
Suggestions that Earth was inhabited by different lifeforms in the distant past, millions if not billions of years ago, has created countless debate among researchers and authors.
Tests performed on the spheres have yielded controversial results.
According to Biblioteca Pleyades, a man called John Hund who acquired one of the spheres took it to the California Space Institute at the University of California in order to find out more about the curious artifacts.
“It turned out that the balance is so fine, it exceeded the limit of their measuring technology,“ and these are the guys who make gyrocompasses for NASA.
However, this statement was later subtracted by the California Space Institute which denied that anyone told Hund that the object had the extraordinary properties.
A Klerksdorp sphere. It is 3 to 4 centimeters in maximum diameter and 2.5 centimeters in thickness. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
According to their statement, there have been “some error in transmission” and that Hund had completely misunderstood the information regarding these objects.
The mystery sphere acquired by Hund is balanced to within one-hundred thousandths of an inch from absolute perfection.
Nobody knows what these stones are.
One NASA scientist told Hund that they do not have the technology to create anything as finely balanced as this.
Hund said the only way that either nature or human technology could create something so finely balanced would be in zero gravity.
A letter from Mr. Hund, made available by Biblioteca Pleyades offers more details about the enigmatic objects:
The existence of the sphere came to my attention ca 1977 while removing endangered rock engravings from the site where pyrophyllite or “wonderstone”, as it is commonly known in the region, is mined on the farm Gestoptefontein (meaning plugged fountain) near the little village of Ottosdal about 110 km from Klerksdorpin South Africa’s Northwest Province.
I was intrigued by the form of the spheres, grooves around the middle and the fact that they are as hard as steel, while the material (pyrophyllite) in which they are found, is as soft as limestone with a count of only 3 on the Moh scale. As you probably know, pyrophyllite (Al2 Si4 O10 (OH)2) is a secondary mineral and the deposits were formed by a process of sedimentation. On Gestoptefontein volcanic activity was responsible for the forming of outcrops varying in height from about 10 to 100 meters. The smooth and relatively soft surface on the slopes were ideal for the prehistoric dwellers (San) to make their engravings of animal and abstract designs.
On Gestoptefontein these outcrops were “swan” into huge pieces by means of twisted steel cables running zig-zag on pulleys for several kilometers. These blocks were then sawn by the same method into more manageable pieces of about 500 x 500 mm. Occasionally the “sawing cable” got stuck on one of the metal spheres embedded in the pyrophyllite.
They vary in size from 30 – 50 mm in diameter and have perfectly concentric grooves round the center as if they were molded. Inside the hard “shell” some have a spongy substance, while in others it resembles charcoal.
When only partly embedded so that they can be seen on the surface, they are not all spheres, but some are also oblong in form.
Andries Bisschoff, a former professor of the University of Potchefstroom argues the curious objects are limonite concretions.
According to research performed on the spheres, they are found in pyrophyllite a secondary mineral which is quite soft.
The spheres have a fibrous structure in the interior with a shell around them.
The spheres are very hard and according to researchers, it is nearly impossible to scratch them.
According to Roelf Marx, curator if the museum of Klerksdorp, South Africa, the spheres are harder than Steel.
“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Those are the words of CarlSagan in his novel Contact.
So yeah, the universe is big. Scratch that. The universe is so big, we can’t really understand it.
Out of the billions of stars and trillions of planets that make up the known universe, modern-day scholars argue only Earth has life.
However, in recent years we have made extraordinary progress in exploring our solar system which has led us to a number of discoveries that suggest that not only are we not alone in the universe, but alien life could exist in our solar system, in the moons of Jupiter or Saturn, or even on Mars.
One of my favorite quotes about alien life comes from a man called Giordano Bruno, born in 1548.
Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist, perhaps best-known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model.
Bruno suggested how stars we see in the night sky are nothing other than sun’s surrounded by their own alien worlds.
He was one of the first to ponder whether or not it was possible for alien life to exist on those distant exoplanets:
“In space, there are countless constellations, sun’s, and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless Earth’s circling around their sun’s…” ― Giordano Bruno, Despre infinit univers si lumi.
Bruno also suggested there was a possibility the universe was infinite and could have no celestial body at its “center”.
Because of his ‘modern thinking,’ Bruno was found guilty of heresy and he was burned at the stake in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori in 1600.
“The ancients observed, and we also observe, that sometimes things fall to earth, or some things leave the earth, or whatever parts we may be near…”
Go further back in time before Giordano Bruno, say 2,000—3,000 years, and you’ll arrive at a time when great ancient civilizations like the ancient Aztecs, Maya, and ancient Egyptians ruled the Earth.
These ancient civilizations, and many others across Southern America, North America, Asia, and Africa were great pioneers during their times in various fields, including engineering, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, etc.
Their level of advancements was huge, and the Maya, for example, were considered as one of the greatest pre-industrial civilizations of the world.
The Egyptians built some of the most impressive ancient structures on the surface of the planet, the pyramids, and managed to transport massive blocks of stone, some weighing more than 50 tons across great distances without ‘simple’ technologies such as the wheel.
Halfway around the world, pre-Inca civilizations did the same thing when they managed to quarry andesite rock and transport it across vast distances, building some of the most impressive archaeological sites on the surface of the planet.
So, how did they do it?
Was it all brute force?
Slaves?
Did they possess some sort of technology we are unaware of?
Or is it possible, as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that an otherworldly influence was at play?
Thankfully, these ancient civilizations recorded their history as best as they could and left behind a number of ancient writings, monuments, and figurines that tell an impressive story.
Here, we take a look at ten amazing ancient figurines that were created by the ancient thousands of years ago, which, according to ancient astronaut theorists around the globe, suggest ancient aliens were in contact with ancient cultures around the globe, thousands of years ago.
The handbag of the gods. Scholars are unable to explain why these mysterious ‘handbags’ appear in illustrations from ancient cultures across the globe.Is that a humanoid in some sort of space suit? This ancient figurine dates back to 600-900 AD.Olmec Monument 19, from La Venta, Tabasco, shows a man holding the handbag in his hand. Image Credit: Flickr Xuan Che.The El-Baul stele in Guatemala. Image creditMystery Estela found in Mexico. Image CreditThe sarcophagus of king K’inich Janaab’ Pakal or more commonly known as King Pakal is one of the most talked about subjects when it comes to the ancient alien theory.Is that an ancient astronaut?Ancient Aliens in Egypt?Is that an ancient Astronaut? Image Credit: TumblrThe evidence is here, all we have to do is decipher it.
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Threats from space aren’t always obvious, but statistically, it’s only a matter of time before one of them happens. One of the most concerning for many space experts is a massive solar storm, like the one that literally lit telegraph paper on fire when it hit back in 1859.
Evidence of alien life is being covered up by NASA, according to a researcher from Buckingham University.
NASA is hiding fossil footprints of extraterrestrial activity on the surface of Mars, said Barry DiGregorio, who works at the Center for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom) and plans to publish a report promising to reveal all hidden details to the public.
DiGregorio plans to release a ‘bombshell report’ which will reveal, once and for all, how NASA is well aware of this discovery, and how the American Space Agency has chosen to keep the truth hidden from the public.
According to NASA, these are most likely crystals, while a scientist from the Center for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham claims they may be trace fossils. Image Credit NASA.
According to the researcher, who has already been dubbed as a ‘controversial scientist’ by numerous internet new outlets, NASA might be ignoring the discovery because of its plans for a manned mission to Mars in the 2030’s.
However, despite the fact that Dr. DiGregorio plans to reveal the truth to the public, NASA says that the shapes captured in the images from Mars which DiGregorio claims are evidence of alien activity are nothing more than rock crystals that are still being investigated.
DiGregorio specializes in studies of microscopic life found on Earth.
The expert argues how some of the images beamed back by the Curiosity rover show clear evidence of patterns similar to Ordovician trace fossils found on Earth.
According to the researcher from the University of Buckingham, there’s evidence of trace fossils on Mars.
These are made as living beings go on about their lives, leaving behind footprints like burros and waste, rather than the remains of the creatures themselves.
DiGregorio believes how the fossils on Mars may represent evidence of soft-bodied creatures that may have once existed on the surface of the red planet.
According to Dr. DiGregorio, fossils on Mars represent signs of soft-bodied creatures which may have roamed its surface in the distant past. This image shows trackways from a slug-like animal, dating back from the Cambrian period, found in Blackberry Hill, central Wisconsin. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
In an interview with the Daily Express, the researcher explained:
“If not trace fossils, what other geological explanations will Nasa come up with?”
“Nasa has turned its back on trying to get the data on this. The order came down from HQ that they should move the rover on to the next point. They didn’t feel it was important enough to look at, I thought that was very odd, despite the fact Gale Crater was host to probably a series of lakes for billions and billions of years. We’re talking about something that might have been equivalent to the Ordovician period on Earth.”
NASA, on the other hand, claims how DiGregorio’s discovery is most likely crystals.
“The crystals theory does not add up. The crystals do not branch or twist. We are talking about something that could have been similar to the Ordovician period on Earth,” he said in reference to the geological period that occurred between 485 and 444 million years ago.
A mineral vein with bright and dark portions distinguishes this Martian rock target, called “Rona,” near the upper edge of “Vera Rubin Ridge” on Mount Sharp. The MAHLI camera on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took the image after the rover brushed the dust off the gray area, roughly 2 inches by 3 inches. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The agency ordered Curiosity, claims the British scientist, to continue its journey without meticulously studying the ‘fossils’ found in the Gale crater area, which was supposed to be a lake area billions of years ago.
And despite being called out for his claims, DiGregorio isn’t the only one who believes there could have been living on the surface of Mars.
In the past, numerous claims have been made about Mars and how the red planet may have been inhabited at one point.
Dr. John Brandenburg, for example, is another scientist who claims that Mars was home to alien life.
However, and unlike DiGregorio, Dr. Brandenburg indicates that Mars was once home to complex alien life, rather than simple soft-bodied creatures, as proposed by DiGregorio.
