Guardian:
A NASA astrobiologist claims to have found microscopic fossils
of alien algae-like beings inside meteorites that landed on
Earth.
Writing
in the
Journal of Cosmology, Richard Hoover claims that the
samples' lack of nitrogen, which is essential for life on
Earth, indicates they are "the remains of extraterrestrial life
forms that grew on the parent bodies of the meteorites when
liquid water was present, long before the meteorites entered
the Earth's atmosphere." Hoover, an expert on life in extreme
environments who works at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center,
said that laboratory tests on the rocky filaments found no
evidence to suggest they were remnants of Earth-based organisms
that contaminated the meteorites after they landed. Rudy
Schild, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics and editor of the journal, said: "The implications
are that life is everywhere, and that life on Earth may have
come from other planets."
