‘Alien’ optical illusion terrifies plane passenger: ‘What the f**k is that?’

A “creepy” real-life optical illusion has terrified passengers while travelling on a plane.

There’s more to this creepy image than meets the eye.

A “creepy” real-life optical illusion on an aeroplane is giving social media users flightmares with many comparing the mind-boggling image to “ET,” per an X post with over 25.6 million views.

“I ALMOST LANDED THIS PLANE MYSELF,” declared the person who posted the trippy picture, which was snapped during an unspecified flight.

The spine-tingling image shows what looks like a mustachioed passenger in a black hoodie ogling the camera person with one giant googly eye as the drink cart passes, New York Post reports.

The so-called sky-clops is actually something far more mundane, as some eagle-eyed viewers observed. Picture: Blu/X

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The image had X users flipping out.

“WTF is an alien doing on there,” declared one shaken viewer, while another wrote, “WTf is thatttt.”

“I woulda jumped out,” declared a third.

Meanwhile, the original poster analogised the foreboding figure to the alien from “ET” hiding “under the blanket.”

Several social media comedians quipped that the so-called sky-clops was the “not real” passenger that internet star Tiffany Gomas was yelling about during her viral aeroplane meltdown in 2023.

As some astute X users pointed out, the dark passenger was not an extra-terrestrial stowaway, but rather someone with their hoodie on backward.

Their so-called oversized iris is actually a headphone in their ear.

“That’s a person with their hoodie on backwards over their face and the black thing that looks like an eyeball is a headphone,” one user clarified.

They elaborated, “So it looks like they are staring at you creepily but that’s really just the side of their head with a headphone in the ear while the hoodie covers the face.”“That’s an earbud in someone’s ear lol, looks creepy at first though,” seconded another.
This article originally appeared in New York Post and was reproduced with permission