Experts express their opinion if life exists outside earth

According to sources, the report does not provide any clear link or association between more than 120 incidents of UFO sightings from the past two decades, and a possibility of Earth having been visited by aliens.

Melbourne: Speculation has been rife about the contents of an unclassified report set to be released later this month from the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) task force. The document, expected to drop on June 25, will supposedly provide a comprehensive summary of what the US government knows about UAPs — or, to use the more popular term, UFOs. While the report is not yet public, the New York Times recently published what it claimed was a preview of the findings, provided by unnamed senior officials who were privy to the report’s contents.

According to sources, the report does not provide any clear link or association between more than 120 incidents of UFO sightings from the past two decades, and a possibility of Earth having been visited by aliens. If the sources are to be believed, there’s clearly still no good reason to interpret an unexplained object in the sky as evidence of aliens. But does that mean aliens aren’t out there, somewhere else in the universe? We asked five experts. Four out of five experts said aliens do exist.

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Here are their responses:

Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland says she believes that alien life exists, but finding proof of this will prove astonishingly hard. Steven Tingay, John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University, says, “It is a very complex concept. But if we found something like bacteria somewhere other than on Earth, I would classify this as alien life.” However, on the contrast of the responses, Martin Van-Kranendonk, Professor and Head of School, UNSW feels the answer should be no. “But, of course, our knowledge relating to this question is finite; we have not investigated every corner of the universe for signs of life and we do not even know what may constitute life in another chemical system, as there is no agreed-on definition of carbon-based life even here on Earth,” Martin explains.