When NASA sent out an unmanned probe into space, one man believes that aliens were watching it all happen from the distance, Yahoo reports.

Scott Waring, a conspiracy theorist believes that there is an extraterrestrial spaceship in a 55-year-old photo taken from NASA's Mercury Project.

Waring, who runs the website "UFO Sightings Daily," says that the picture shows an alien spacecraft in the background of the picture.

"It's actually the Earth in the background and the UFO is in space observing the Mercury capsule," Waring said.

"I found a disk in some photos of the Mercury mission," he added.

"The disk is hard to make out in the first photo, but three photos later its easy to see. It looks like a classic disk with a wedge cut out of it. We are living in a remarkably era, when certain deep truths about the universe come within reach of the human spirit," he continued.

He's also certain that aliens would be watching the historical moment, and he believes it's more possible because of the circumstances. There were no people aboard, so the aliens could go undetected.

Waring says that aliens have been observing humans' missions into space since the very beginning.

The photo comes from an unmanned mission, Mercury Redstone 1A Dec. 19, 1960. The entire Mercury Mission lasted from 1958 to 1963 and was America's first mission to send men into space.

Waring and another Internet UFO researcher have come across other suspicious images in their research of early NASA photos, Science Times reported. In one photo, the two came across two glowing objects in a photo from the Gemini mission in 1966.

The scientific community is not convinced that the 1960 photo displays an image of a UFO. They say more proof is needed. Instead, not just a blurry photo from 50 years ago.