The 'man' ON the moon? Shadow resembling an alien-like figure captured beside craters on the lunar surface
- YouTube user Wowforreal has posted a video showing the strange figure
- It can also been seen on Google Moon at 27°34’26.35″N 19°36’4.75″W
- The find was made by looking over thousands of Google Moon images
- The users has previously claimed to see an alien spaceship on the moon
- Seeing familiar things in random objects is a known as Pareidolia
- Scientists claim we also tend to use this ability to 'enrich our imagination' and recognise meaningful shapes, even when they're not there
Now one YouTube user believes he has made the ultimate find on images from Google Moon - an alien figure lurking in the satellite’s deep craters.
Wowforreel's video shows what he says could be an alien figure walking along the surface and it has already been viewed more than two million times in less than a month.
However, the most likely explanation for the sighting is a psychological phenomenon called Pareidolia, which is the brain's response to seeing faces and other significant objects in random stimulus.
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![What is this mystery figure on the moon? The image was spotted on the Google Moon site by web user Jasenko. Nasa announced the shape is simply 'dust, an eyelash [or] scratch on the negative' of the film that took the image](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_ub1LQPuA0UX9-LfaastygMwQpMaNRJstA-9pjAKLA_YNmCExedQ5YWxpKLSMHh1TgM33W8mfUvPlHOujsSwcqpVc-ThOLBsNwdJ_oNfLvH2cZHNeOszZ0LoK9P7nAJu8lLwN6gAKGT9dcIy_udT2-f0Mnsy4wIln05KuYJGA=s0-d)
WHAT IS PAREIDOLIA?
Seeing familiar things in random objects is nothing new.The phenomenon is called Pareidolia is the psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random stimulus.
It is a form of apophenia, which is when people see patterns or connections in random, unconnected data.
Human eyes can spot faces within their environment and it helps them recognise friends in a crowd, work out how fast a car is travelling, and see patterns.
Scientists claim we also tend to use this ability to 'enrich our imagination' and recognise meaningful shapes, even when they're not there.
Tom Rose, a paranormal explainer, wrote in the Examiner the figure bears an uncanny resemblance to what the ancient statue, 'The Colossus of Rhodes', is thought to have looked like before it was felled a massive earthquake in 226 BC.
Wowforreel said he started investigating the shadow after receiving an online tip from another web user named Jasenko.
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‘An irregularly shaped dark spot he noticed on Google Moon looks like it could be a cast shadow from a massive standing object, or figure,’ Wowforreeel told UFO Sighting Daily.
‘At first I thought maybe it was something drawn into the picture but after going to Google Moon, whatever it is or isn't…uh, is there.’
The images used to create the lunar images for Google's moon series come from Nasa. However, the space agency has yet to comment on exactly what they believe the image shows.
In January, the user highlighted controversial images which showed what some people believed could be a secret alien base or spaceship on the moon.
The triangular anomaly, spotted on Google's map of the moon, had rows of seven light-like dots along its edge.
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