Rover Encounters Robot on Mars? - Coast to Coast AM
A Mars anomaly hunter suspects that he has stumbled upon a scene straight out of a Pixar movie in the form of a diminutive robot seemingly inspecting NASA's Curiosity Rover. Indefatigable UFO researcher Scott C. Waring made the find earlier this week while scouring images posted at the space agency's website from the vaunted exploratory mission on the Red Planet. Although he has previously spotted strange and unusual oddities on Mars in the past, this particular discovery even seemed to take him by surprise.
"Is it just me," Waring wondered, "or have I just found a mini alien robot wandering around the Mars Curiosity rover?" The potential automaton in question appears at the bottom of two different photos and seems to be both shiny as well as possessing legs of some kind. Waring also noted that the anomaly stands out from the dark terrain around it, which is likely how he wound up noticing it in the first place.
As to where the weird object may have come from, Waring offered a rather fantastic theory that goes beyond the standard 'ancient civilization on Mars' idea which we've come to know so well from stories of this nature. He proposed that perhaps the small robot, believed to be about a foot across, could actually be a human creation that was sent to the Red Planet in a clandestine fashion by a private space company like SpaceX. Failing that, he also mused that the mini robot could be an emissary from a different nation tasked with keeping an eye on NASA Martian handiwork.
Skeptics, on the other hand, argue that this latest find on Mars is in keeping with other extraordinary 'objects' seen on the Red Planet in that they are merely rocks that look like Earthly objects thanks to the pareidolia phenomenon. While that may very well be the case, we can't help but hope that Waring is correct, as it would mean that the Curiosity Rover might have a friend on Mars, which would be nice since, as we all know, and it's lonely out in space. What's your take on the odd find?
