Mysterious ‘three-sided’ pyramid on Mars fuels speculation about advanced alien civilizations
Mysterious ‘three-sided’ pyramid on Mars fuels speculation about advanced alien civilizations
Evidence of alien life or cosmic pyramid scheme?
A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian civilizations after sharing footage that appeared to depict a “three-sided pyramid” on the Red Planet.
NASA researcher Keith Laney had initially stumbled across the anomaly in 2001 while using NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor to scan the terrain for unusual formations, the Daily Mail reported.
He posited that the interplanetary prism could be artificial, declaring, “Were this found anywhere on Earth, we’d surely be digging into it.
This footage was then shared to X by documentarian Brian Dobbs. “On Mars, there is a three-sided pyramid the size of the Great Pyramid in Egypt,” he wrote.
Accompanying footage shows zoomed in footage of the triangular mound, which is situated in Valles Marineris, the second-largest canyon system in the solar system, stretching 2,500 miles long and boasting depths of up to 4 miles down.
The area is known for its sheer cliffs and layered rock formations, which can produce anomalous geometric features such as the alleged space pyramid.
Interestingly, the formation has been captured on four separate occasions between 2001 and 2016. The pyramid maintained its symmetrical three-sided geometry in each.
Dobbs acknowledged that this doesn’t offer definitive proof of Martian life, but wondered why we haven’t conducted investigations to rule out its potential artificial origins.
“What geological process creates a three-sided pyramidal structure like this?” he wondered in a Youtube video. “It just is so baffling to me why we can take a look at this and say to ourselves there is nothing to see here, clearly this is an anomaly.”
Dobbs isn’t the only one to suggest that said prism is technological.
In a research paper from last year, Mars researcher George Haas posited that said structure “exhibits a level of geometry and symmetry that supports a high probability of artificial origins.”
“You don’t have to be a geologist to know the difference between a rock and a sculpture, something that’s geometric,” he told the Daily Mail.
Meanwhile, the CIA released documents in 2025 detailing a mysterious recon mission they conducted to gain intel on the Red Planet.
They reportedly found pyramids riddling the Martian surface, fueling speculations that said pyramid could be of artificial provenance.
Former CIA agent Joe McMoneagle said one of the Martian prisms housed “monster rooms” and was bigger than anything found in Egypt.
There were some naysayers, however. Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb, who has repeatedly asserted that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be technological, told the Post that the pyramid could be “natural.”
“We know that the Mars had lakes, rivers, oceans of water, liquid water,” he said. “So you could get shapes like that.”
He also dismissed any comparisons to the Egyptian pyramids, claiming, “they are made of stones, the blocks that you don’t see in this image.”
“If I were to see that, then I would obviously say it’s a construction.”
Far more compelling, per Loeb, was a cylindrical object discovered on Mars in 2022, which he suggested could have non-human, technological origins.
The researcher called on NASA’s Curiosity Rover to investigate in a March 8 blog post.
“Should we just assume that the mysterious cylinder is human-made debris and move on or turn back the rover to figure out whether its origin is different?” he wondered.
