History’s most famous artworks ‘littered with aliens and UFOs’, crackpot believers claim
CONSPIRACY theorists are certain that famous ancient paintings provide evidence that aliens exist and visited our ancestors.
Here are the artworks that are often considered as proof that intelligent lifeforms and flying saucers have been witnessed on Earth long before modern times.
Leonardo da Vinci’s St John The Baptist 1513-16
Lots of people think that the ancient genius Leonardo da Vinci was hiding secret messages in his paintings.
Some people think that he was hiding alien figures in some of his most famous pieces of work that can be seen if you mirror these images.
A mirrored and lightened version of his St John the Baptist painting appears to show an alien face.
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa 1503-17
Saint Wolfgang and the Devil 1475
This work by a famous German Renaissance painter Michael Pacher in the 15th century is based around a legend that states Saint Wolfgang, the Bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria during the 10th century, tricked the devil into building a church.
Internet sleuths believe the odd green shaped figure, which supposedly represents the devil, is actually an alien.
However, during this period of Byzantine art, angels were usually depicted with wings and halos.
The Annunciation with Saint Emidius, 1486
This is an altar piece painted by Italian artist Carlo Crivelli designed to celebrate the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would become mother of Jesus.
Some theories suggest that the halo of the Holy Spirit, depicted in the top left shining down a beam of light, is actually a UFO.
Crucifixion of Christ 1350
This wall mural from 1350 by an unknown artist can be found in the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo.
Two odd-looking objects with 'pilots' can be seen in the sky on both sides of Jesus.
There are many explanations for what these symbols represent but some people like to believe that they are spaceships.
In other news, mysterious space object ‘Oumuamua’ that skimmed past Earth is not an alien probe, scientists claim.
The origin of a mysterious celestial radio pulse has finally been pinpointed by astronomers and they say it came from a distant galaxy several billion light years away.
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