NASA’s Mars Rover just spotted what looks awfully like an alien snake

Conspiracy fans are convinced that NASA’s Mars Rover has just spotted an alien snake on the Red Planet - hiding behind a rock.

Either that, or it’s a tentacle of some much larger alien, lurking out of view.

The image, captured by the Mars Curiosity Rover, caught the strange shape near a small ridge on the Red Planet.

Tireless alien hunter Scott C Waring of UFO Sightings Daily says, ‘A snake was discovered slithering from under a rock and moving up the edge of a small ridge.

‘The snake looks similar to a small garden snake. About half a meter long. A reptilian life form may have a better chance at surviving such a harsh environment.

Previously, conspiracy theorists have picked out coffins, guns and alien faces on Mars - and on one memorable occasion, a buxom female robot walking on the surface.

‘The vast majority of these images are as vague and elusive as those posted by UFO witnesses on Earth, and many have a fairly mundane explanation,’ said Nigel Watson, author of the UFO investigations Manual.

'The problem is that the more Nasa denies such things or explains them, the more people think there is a conspiracy to hide the truth that aliens are visiting our planet.’