By Tim Binnall
In what is undoubtedly the first of many such instances, an anomaly hunter scouring images from the new Mars Perseverance Rover has spotted something unusual on the Red Planet: an oddity resembling a baby penguin. The curious sight was noticed by indefatigable UFO researcher Scott Waring as he pored over fresh photographs taken by the spacecraft that only began its mission just a few weeks ago. Despite the brief amount of time that the rover has been on Mars, the spacecraft has apparently already uncovered something intriguing in the eyes of independent investigators.
"Guys, I found something on Mars that is a little strange," Waring wrote on his website when announcing that he had caught sight of what appears to be a baby bird sitting on the surface of the Red Planet in one of the Perseverance images. The researcher opined that it appears to be a juvenile creature based on the "feathery fuzz" that chicks are known to sport and argued that the bird's beak, head, neck, tail, wing, and "even the extra-long feet are visible." Since those appendages seem to be particularly long, Waring concluded that the animal is a baby penguin.
He postulated that the perceived baby creature is either "an alien species of bird on Mars" or, in a particularly fantastic hypothesis, that the photo is a fake that was taken on Canada's Devon Island, where researchers test equipment for the Red Planet and, as a matter of fact, penguins reside. Skeptical observers, of course, will say that the anomaly hunter is merely mistaking a rock for a living creature by way of pareidolia. What's your take on the first weird anomaly courtesy of Perseverance? Share your thoughts at the Coast to Coast AM Facebook page.