NASA•USD The object a UFO conspiracy theorist says appears like a monkey or baboon

Scott C Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, who spends hours trawling through NASA images of the surface of Mars beamed back by the Curiosity Rover droid, has accused the US space agency of "hiding the truth" by not flagging up the curious finds itself. Mr Waring has spent several months releasing images that he claims show live creatures, the remains of dead ones, or evidence of intelligent civilisation such as buildings, statues and artwork in Martian photographs released online by NASA. His discoveries and those of third parties include objects which purportedly resemble a bear, mouse, crab, scorpion, fossils, pyramid structure and even hieroglyphs and several faces carved into rock.

NASA•USD The "baboon" in close-up detail

But his latest release is an object on Mars he claims can only be a baboon or monkey. He said: "If this isn't the most unexpected thing to find in a Mars photo, then I just don't know what is. "I found a monkey slumping as it sits on a stone along a hillside. "Yeah...I don't get it either. How is this possible? I will let you figure that one out.

I found a monkey slumping as it sits on a stone along a hillside. Yeah...I don't get it either. How is this possible? I will let you figure that one out. Scott C Waring

"This is clearly a creature on a hillside, just like a baboon on a pile of stones in the African outback. "Why the hell aren't biologists and zoologists looking into this?" He insisted that there was now "overall a large amount of evidence that life once existed on Mars," and put forward a bizarre explanation of why it was not openly discussed. He said: "With every bit of evidence I find, I lose more respect for NASA that I once had. "Why hide the truth from the public, when they can take it well?

NASA•USD Mr Waring tries to convince readers he has found a primate