Picture courtesy of www.space.com

An alien moon base. Have you ever thought of it? I have. I mean, UFOs visit earth almost every day, they have to stay somewhere, right? You can’t just sit in your car and drive for ever, you eventually become tired and crash because you had a bit too much drinks fall asleep. If aliens drove tired we would have a lot more UFO crashes. Anyway. This hole was first spotted by high-resolution cameras aboard the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft, shortly afterwards NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took another up-close photo of the moon pit from lunar orbit, which is the picture you observe above. The pit is said to be large enough to swallow an entire football field whole! That’s really something! Not like that hole I dug in the front yard when I was little, it was large enough to barely swallow a  football player…

“Only three have been discovered thus far, so I believe it is safe to state that skylights (pits) are rare at the 100-meter scale,” Mark Robinson, principal investigator for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) at Arizona State University, told SPACE.com in an e-mail.

Mare Ingenii, also called the “sea of cleverness,” is best known for its prominent lunar swirls, which are highly reflective surface features that are associated with magnetic anomalies. The new images of the region from LROC show a giant pit measuring about 427 feet (130 meters) in diameter.

The boulders and debris resting on the floor of the cavity are partially illuminated and likely originated at the surface, falling through the pit opening during its collapse. The hole is thought to be the result of a partially collapsed lava tube.

A similar moon pit, which was believed to be a skylight into a lava tube, was previously discovered by the Kaguya mission in the Marius Hills region of the moon. The new pit in Mare Ingenii, however, lacks the numerous volcanic features that were found in the Marius Hills region.

Boulders and debris my ass, those seem too well arranged to be debris, and, Magnetic anomalies!? I smell a UFO cover up. And it smells like… NACHOS!! My nachos are ready! Anyway, I got to go eat some nachos with extra cheese, so let me know in the comment section what that looks like to you. It’s pretty clear to me that it is not a random array of rocks that fell through the pit opening during its collapse. I have no larger versions of that picture, but if you find one online or have a better theory be sure to let me know in the comment section.

Read more about a Rare Hole In the Moon Photographed while I eat my nachos and drink some cola.