Dr. Richard Hoover, a highly regarded astrobiologist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, claims he has found evidence of alien life in meteorites.
Hoover has revealed the findings in the online Journal of Cosmology, and will have his conclusions carefully scrutinised by the scientific community.
Hoover found bacteria-like creatures that he calls “indigenous fossils,” which he believes originated beyond Earth and were not introduced here after the meteorites landed.
Using the most advanced micro-scanning technology in the world, Dr. Hoover fractured fresh slices of the interior of these meteorites, and discovered the remains of several species of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae. Blue-green algae have a unique quality, they thrive even under the harshest of conditions.
“He concludes these fossilised bacteria are not Earthly contaminants but are the fossilised remains of living organisms which lived in the parent bodies of these meteors, e.g. comets, moons, and other astral bodies”, explains the synopsis to the paper.
Hoover said this could provide evidence for the possibility of life elsewhere in our solar system, particularly on the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, TVNZ reports.
His claim that he found tiny fossils of alien life in the remnants of a meteorite has stirred both excitement and scepticism, and is being closely reviewed by 100 experts.
Obviously, if Hoover’s findings were to be confirmed, they would have huge implications. No longer would earth be the only source of life.
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