Help SMS received a strange image

[peterx]

My phone running android 5.1.1 received this SMS (see attached file).
Is it a virus?

 

[scary alien]

I don't think that's an SMS message...that's just part of Hangouts telling you about a feature they added a little while back (earlier this year?):

https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3111918​

(welcome to our AndroidForums, by the way )

 

[peterx]

attached file