Hold on to your tin foil hats, because this is a good one.
Alien hunters have found what they claim to be an unexplained shadow on Mercury, which is caused by a large structure. The shadow is highlighted in red in the original Nasa image
The object was first spotted in 2012 by UFO Sightings Daily, where Scott C Waring reported it as a ‘doorway’ more than three miles long.
‘This is a shadow … where is the shadow coming from?’
In the original Nasa image of Mercury’s surface, captured by the Messenger probe, the crater left of centre is approximately 26 miles (42 kilometres) in diameter
Zooming in to the image (pictured), Tyler Glockner claims: ‘Whatever this object is, it has to be miles, likely. But it is a structure’
Citing his experience of finding previous structure from other images, Glockner adds: ‘I know how shadows work as well as [how] natural formations react to the sunlight.
‘As you guys are seeing, this is clearly a large rectangular building, the top and front of it is being hit by the sun, the back of the structure is in darkness and we have this very long shadow being cast down on the surface behind it.’
Mercury (pictured) is the closest planet to the sun and the smallest of the eight planets. Temperatures on the surface can swing wildly from lows of -173°C (-280°F) to blistering highs of 427°C (800°F)
