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Scientists are 'weeks away' from confirming alien life exists according to professor

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Published 16:13 12 Oct 2024 GMT+1

Scientists are 'weeks away' from confirming alien life exists according to professor

Could the wait finally be over?

Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper

A NASA filmmaker has claimed that scientists are mere 'weeks away' from confirming that extraterrestrial life exists.

Search deep enough on the internet and you'll find dozens of accounts from people claiming to have evidence of UFOs (more recently rebranded as UAPs) or even close encounters with aliens themselves.

However, nothing has been verified as of yet.

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But the long, chaotic wait to find evidence of an extraterrestrial civilisation may finally be over, with one academic claiming that evidence could be published as soon as next month.

Could this finally, finally be the time we discover extraterrestrial life? (Getty Stock Images)
Could this finally, finally be the time we discover extraterrestrial life? (Getty Stock Images)

Unlike claims of alien sightings from pseudoscientists and UFO hunters, the latest claims come from someone Professor Simon Holland, an academic and popular scientist who has worked directly alongside the likes of NASA and the BBC.

Revealing the news during an interview with The Mirror, Holland explained that there are two groups of astronomers currently racing to publish their alien findings.

"We have found a non-human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy, and people don't know about it," he said.

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Holland didn't give too many details about the discovery away, however, he claimed the information was passed along to him via a contact at Breakthrough Listen, a private scientific research institute founded by Yuri Milner.

The update has been shared by popular science educator Professor Simon Holland (Ian Waldie/Getty Images)
The update has been shared by popular science educator Professor Simon Holland (Ian Waldie/Getty Images)

However, don't unfurl your 'Welcome Aliens' banner and scrunch the tin foil on your hat just yet, as there's still much research which needs to be gathered before anyone can 100 percent confirm the existence of aliens.

Research currently stems back to a 'non-human technological signature' radiowave, known as BLC-1, picked up by Australia's Parkes telescope back in 2019.

Initial research suggested the signal wasn't extraterrestrial in nature, however, Holland has since added that Oxfordshire-based Breakthrough Listen is now looking to gather more evidence.

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Regardless of further evidence uncovered, Holland was keen to stress that the signals weren't a natural phenomenon.

"It’s a single point source," he added. "The signal, instead of being the giant buzz of everything in the universe that we hear through all radio telescopes, was a narrow electromagnetic spectrum."

However the team could be beaten to publishing by a Chinese agency (Qu Honglun/China News Service/VCG)
However the team could be beaten to publishing by a Chinese agency (Qu Honglun/China News Service/VCG)

However, the team is supposedly not alone in their research, with Holland adding that Breakthrough Listen are currently in a race with the Chinese space agency who are researching the same radio signals.

"This is breaking news, as of yesterday, but the Chinese might be pipping them to the post, with their, FAST [Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope] program. It's the largest telescope in the world since Arecibo," he said.

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So how long can we expect to wait before hearing the information from this report?

Holland went on to add that he believes the findings will be published - either by Breakthrough Listen or the Chinese team - within the next month of so.

LADbible has contacted Breakthrough Listen for comment.

Featured Image Credit: Qu Honglun/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images and Ian Waldie/Getty Images

Topics: Science, Space, Aliens

Brenna Cooper
Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper is a journalist at LADbible. She graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in History, followed by an NCTJ accredited masters in Journalism. She began her career as a freelance writer for Digital Spy, where she wrote about all things TV, film and showbiz. Her favourite topics to cover are music, travel and any bizarre pop culture.

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