That is no moon man: Nasa

19 August 2014 - 17:10 By Times LIVE
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A few weeks ago youtube user WowForReeel posted a video claiming to have spotted the shadow of an alien figure on Google Moon.

 

According to the video he found something that  "looks like it could be a cast shadow from a massive standing object, or figure."

The International Business Times reports that Nasa took a look at the footage themselves, and dismissed it.

Noah Petro, a deputy project scientist for the Lunar Renaissance Orbiter told reporters that the image was caught on either the Apollo 15 or 17 manned missions to the moon in 1971 and 1972 respectively.

That means it was done on film, and "all sorts of nasty things could happen to film."

Which is to say it was probably an eyelash, dust or even a scratch - not ET.

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