NASA UFO sighting: Asteroid Eros photo reveals '500m-wide alien base' – theory

The photo found by Waring, in fact, depicts only a part of the space rock, with a section of the much longer asteroid cropped out.

Waring’s controversial claims swiftly racked-up scores of comments on his etdatabase YouTube channel.

Redneck Anomalies appeared convinced, commenting: “That ‘asteroid’ is just a layer added over the real object to hide its identity from us. Not even a 32nd cousin to an asteroid.

However, Paul Salvatore provided a more prosaic explanation for the ‘find’, writing: “You’re looking at light hitting the top edge of a crater Scott.”

Other sceptics would say the ‘alien base’ is simply the effects of pareidolia.

source: express.co.uk