by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
This is a story I’m finally getting around to, though it’s been in my finals’ box since K.M. first shared it at the beginning of this month (and our gratitude for doing so!) I kept postponing blogging about it because I think the story is significant enough not to be “crowded out” or “overshadowed” by the usual hubbub in the news). As you can probably tell from the title of the headline, there is more strangeness on Mars, specifically, an unusual “something” on its surface in a photograph snapped by NASA, a “something” which looks all-too-uncomfortably like a gun:
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Strange formation in NASA’s Mars photo fuels claims of extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet
As the article makes clear, however, this object was first photographed in 2014, and caused a minor stir of controversy back then, because its shape and other features clearly made it look like some sort of gun, and to be more specific, an automatic pistol at that:
A strangely shaped object photographed on the Martian surface has reignited bizarre theories about extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet.
The picture, captured by NASA‘s Opportunity rover in 2014, recently resurfaced online after social media users claimed the object resembles an ‘alien gun.’
Scott C Waring, a Martian researcher from ‘UFO Sighting Daily,’ suggested the ‘gun’ is evidence of why the space agency sent a rover to Mars to retrieve alien technology.
This is followed by the usual “explanations” that the object is simply a case of pareidolia, and that it couldn’t possibly be a gun or a weapon because it could hardly be expected to fit an alien’s hands (assuming, of course, that aliens look nothing like humans, a conclusion that is contradicted by some statements in the Majestic-12 documents, but that’s a whole other story for a whole other day):
However, it seems the UFO researchers’ claims are nothing more than a case of pareidolia, a psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items.
NASA has also maintained that it has no evidence of extraterrestrial life and has yet to find any signs of current or past life on Mars.While Waring is sure Opportunity spotted a gun on the Martian landscape, others believe otherwise.
One X user commented: ‘I’m not an expert, but I believe this is a rock.’
While another joked: ‘Why would aliens have guns designed for human hands and fingers? lol.’
There you have it: another typical Daily Mail tabloid piece, “click-bait” to use the contemporary expression: a tantalizing headline, and then a soft-pedaled article leading to a completely mundane conclusion: “No, that was not a two-headed Elvis Presley that was given birth by a Siamese-twinned mountain goat on the bitter side of a cold crag; it was only a piece of broccoli that looked like a two-headed Elvis given birth by a Siamese-twinned mountain goat on the bitter side of a cold crag.”
