UFO Sightings 2016: Researcher Finds Alleged Proof Of Ancient Civilization That Once Lived On Mars [VIDEO]
Prominent UFO hunter Scott Waring has made a rather exciting discovery. Amid photos of the Red Planet, the UFO hunter has allegedly found traces of a long-lost civilization that once resided on the planet's surface. The evidence? A lone shoe.
UFO Hunter Finds Alleged Shoe in Mars' Surface
Waring, how runs the popular UFO website UFO Sightings Daily, described his discovery in a recent post. According to Waring, the object is proof that Mars' surface was once habitable, but at some point in the past, its inhabitants were wiped out.
"While looking through some Mars rover photos, I found a lone show on the edge of the crater. This is probably the shoe of species that were at war long ago, the shoe being the lone evidence that the person ever existed," Waring wrote.
"How many times on a battlefield or a catastrophic event have we seen photos in the newspapers of the shoes of the victims... alone... evidence of how hard they were hit, how fast they were taken from us? Well, this is such evidence."
Not the First Shoe Discovered on Mars
What is particularly interesting is the fact that Waring actually claimed to have discovered another shoe in the Red Planet's surface back in April. Apart from Waring, other UFO aficionados have also spotted footwear on the planet's surface, with some allegedly being made of a leather-like material, and some even appearing to have laces.
Martian Shoe Sightings All in the Mind?
While the instances of random footwear seemingly appearing on Mars' surface are interesting, analysts who have studied the photos where the shoes were allegedly seen have concluded that those who have found the objects were experiencing a phenomenon known as pareidolia, which is the mind's tendency to spot familiar patterns amid random images.
An article from TIME previously explained the phenomenon, after several skywatchers reported seeing a crab-like creature on Mars.
"The pareidolia phenomenon is actually a deeply rooted one, something that helps infants focus on faces early and also allowed humans in the wild to spot danger easily-picking a potentially menacing human or animal peering out from a backdrop of leaves or scrub," the article explained.
