A popular UFO YouTube channel has discovered what it claims could be the remains of an alien tank on the moon. The image, discovered by UFO Sightings Daily shows what they describe as a tank-like object sitting among "ruins" and other "artificial structures" on the surface of the moon.

NASA Image.

The moon image is taken from servers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and it shows something that, with a little bit of imagination and little to no critical thinking, appears similar to a large turret but without a main gun. This could be due to the use of advanced alien technology which has rendered a long gun barrel irrelevant, because the barrel was destroyed, or even be because it is actually a pile of moon rocks and piles of moon rocks don't have main gun barrels because they are not actually tanks.

The large, frying-pan shaped "turret" admittedly appears similar to the Israeli Merkava IV main battle tank. If it is a tank, the simple explanation is that it is indeed an Israeli tank and not an alien one. How did it get to the moon and who is it fighting there? This raises a broader, more sinister question: Is there a secret war on the moon? (No.) Of course there's also the issue of scale. According to the scale of the photo, the rocky tank structure would be some 50 meters long. That's roughly five times as long as a Merkava IV here on Earth.

Israeli Merkava IV tank. Jack Guez Getty Images

So the most likely explanation? Probably some rocks. Maybe Nazis, but probably rocks.

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