IS THERE LIFE OUTSIDE OUR PLANET?
Added on: 25th Jan 2016
OLD ILLUSTRATIONS
An 1803 illustration from Ume No Chiri depicts a real-life artefact
found by a Japanese sailor. Its exterior was iron and glass and the
inside featured the strange letters pictured in the drawing. Was this
the creation of a vivid imagination, or was the artist inspired by
technology beyond the times?
AUSTRALIAN ROCK ART
Predominantly found in the remote Australian northwest Kimberly
region, there are ancient drawings (known as Wandjina paintings)
on rocks that show beings with enlarged bald heads, large
slanted eyes, and no mouths. Aliens maybe?
AREA 51
The US Air Force acquired the area in 1955 and all the research about
possible sightings or alien landings associated with the place is
well guarded. Its secretive nature and undoubted connection to
classified aircraft research, together with reports of unusual
phenomena, have made Area 51 a focus of modern UFO
conspiracy theories.
APOLLO 11’S UFO SIGHTING
In a documentary about the Apollo 11 space mission, the astronauts
stated without reservation that they saw a UFO that kept pace with
them for a time while on their journey to the moon. Though
explanations for this UFO sighting range from the rocket that had
separated from the main craft to the sun reflecting off the
detached panels.
ALIEN SCORPIONS
A published article in the Russian Solar System Research magazine
claimed that a Soviet probe actually captured images of alien life
(creatures that looked like scorpions) on Earth’s scorching sister
Venus back in 1982. (Though it’s important to note that most scientists
have attributed this “scorpion” to faulty camera lenses).
ALIEN FOSSILS
NASA’s scientists have recently found tiny fossils of bacterial
alien life-forms in the remnants of a meteorite that landed on Earth.
ALIEN ABDUCTION
Throughout the years many people have claimed to have been
abducted by aliens. Though these kind of claims warrant
scepticism, it’s not outside the realm of possibility for these
claims to have some merit. Most notably a few year ago a victim
from Gulf Breeze, Florida, claimed, a “large human-like figure” took
a sample from his spine with a syringe while he was sleeping in
his home. Was this truly intelligent life performing research on
this man, a mere hallucination, or an elaborate hoax?
THE KNOWN UNIVERSE ITSELF
Technically speaking, there is no direct proof that life outside our
planet exists, at least not yet. Nevertheless, our universe is home
to a lot of stars, and about half of them (that we know of) harbour
planets. It’s difficult to believe that our planet is the only planet that
has gone through life sustaining changes. It’s not entirely out of the
realm of possibility, but it’s more likely that there is indeed life out
there somewhere and we just haven’t found it yet.
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