Scientists: Alien spaceship ‘could have crash-landed on Mars’

By Breaking Belize News Staff: Scientists suggest that a possible alien spacecraft crash landing cannot be entirely ruled out as the cause of peculiar spike-like protrusions observed on Mars, according to a recent Yahoo News report.

Earlier this year in April, NASA’s Curiosity Rover captured images of what appeared to be a series of spikes, plates, and wedges emerging from rocks within the 96-mile-wide Gale Crater. Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, an astrobiologist from NASA Ames Research Centre and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, labeled it as “the most bizarre rock” she had ever seen during her two-decade study of the red planet.

As per the latest research published in the Journal of Astrobiology, these strange formations may be “sand spikes,” similar to those seen on Earth, which forms in water-logged sands during substantial earthquakes of magnitude seven or higher. Analogous rock formations have been observed in the North Alpine basin of Southern Germany and near the San Andreas fault in the Imperial Valley of Southern California.

However, the research team emphasizes that a fragment from an extraterrestrial or even terrestrial spacecraft “cannot be discounted with absolute certainty.” In other parts of the Gale Crater, images appear to show wheels, an axle, and a debris field, possibly implying a crash site.

While the scientific consensus leans towards these being ‘sand spikes’ resulting from seismic activity on Mars, Prof Richard Armstrong from Aston University, Birmingham, the first author of the paper, told The Telegraph, “There is no way of proving for certain what the spikes are… I suspect the enigmatic ‘wheels’ are a separate phenomenon. Mars images often show strange formations and features which ‘look like’ familiar objects.”

Among the images taken by Curiosity, several rocks show intriguing protrusions, including one with 11 evenly spaced spikes. Objects resembling shark teeth and plates with embedded spikes are also noticeable.

Past theories speculated that these unusual objects were fossil fish bones, dinosaur bones, or a product of Martian wind weathering. Some even suggested that these could be remnants of a crashed Mars orbiter or discarded equipment. Notably, at least 10 spacecraft have lost contact or crashed on Mars, including Britain’s Beagle 2. The Martian surface is now littered with an estimated 15,694 lbs (7,119 kg) of human debris.

Nonetheless, the research paper argues that the strange objects are unlikely to be connected to human craft since they do not resemble anything sent from Earth. The researchers write, “Given its small size and that there are no known human-made analogs and no logical explanation as to what purpose these spikes may serve, it does not seem likely these specimens are the remnants of craft or equipment that fell into Gale Crater.”

Other proposed explanations for these Martian spikes include possible microbial activity, remains of petrified algae, or trace fossils such as sand-filled worm burrows. However, as Prof Armstrong cautions, the true origins of these formations still remain speculative.

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