And already, researchers claim to have uncovered THREE separate pictures showing UFOs close to the lunar surface, just days after the US space agency posted the archive online.

This week Nasa released thousands of high-definition photographs taken from its Apollo missions to the moon for the first time.

More than 8,400 have been uploaded by the American space agency to online photosharing site Flickr.

They offer a fresh look at the period when Neil Armstrong took man’s first steps on the moon.

And it has allowed alien chasers "fresh opportunity" to scour space for evidence of intelligent life, including one image which shows, once you zoom in on the picture, an arrangement of what could be three lights in distant space.

NASA, of course, is conspicuously silent. Can't explain away this one as another "digital artifact."  To read more, click here.