Intriguing photos have emerged which some believe show an unidentified flying object (UFO) above Youngsville, Louisiana. The series of three amateur photos show a man working on a boat.
But behind him, an apparently-unexplained object is visible in the distance.
The anomaly is triangular in shape, leading some to speculate it is extraterrestrial in origin.
UFO hunter Scott Waring bizarrely believes the photos prove the existence of alien visitors.
He said on his blog UFO Sightings Daily: “This just came into MUFON today and I don’t like to report old sightings, but these photos are fantastic.
READ MORE: ‘UFOs seen near Nellis Air Force Base which is home to aliens’
“The declassified 2014 Chilean Navy UFO video that was released is 100 percent proof that UFOs make contrails when they want.
“Yeah, I haven’t been making it all up, I gather my info from past sightings.
“So these 2006 photos have data backing them up from past sightings. This looks 100 percent alien to me.”
And the eyewitness who shared the photos to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) said: “One evening while playing with cat on blocked watercraft in yard my wife took photos of me playing with the cat.
“There was no sound or we would have looked up towards it.
“The craft appears to be within approximately five miles in the photo.
“An old F-100 would definitely have made quite a roar at that close proximity. Also, I know of no remaining F-100s still flying today.
“In the three photos, the first shows no anomaly second photo shows craft in close.
“[In the] third photo, it appears as a bright speck heading off to the NW towards Lafayette.
“This may just be some sort of digital photo artefact but I think it’s quite odd that the object would show up with such clarity.”
As far as scientists can tell, we are the only intelligent life form in the solar system and possibly the Universe.
And many UFO sightings can be explained through a phenomenon known as pareidolia.
Pareidolia is a form of apophenia and describes the brain’s tendency to see recognisable shapes and patterns where they do not exist.
The effect can cause people to see faces in clouds or UFOs in otherwise mundane objects.
The US space agency NASA said: “Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon where people see recognizable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data.
“There are many examples of this phenomenon on Earth and in space.”