Global Hacker Says NASA Will Announce Evidence of Alien Life

Global hacking collective Anonymous reportedly thinks NASA has evidence proving the existence of alien life.

The group apparently posted an unofficial video on YouTube on Tuesday, saying: "NASA says aliens are coming! Many other planets throughout the universe probably hosted intelligent life long before Earth did."

The 12-and-a-half-minute video clip was based on a statement allegedly made at a recent meeting at the U.S Science Space and Technology Committee.

The video focuses on recent NASA discoveries, according to Newsweek, including the discovery of 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which present similar conditions to Earth, by NASA’s Kepler space telescope team in June, as well as comments made by a senior NASA official in a U.S. government hearing.

During the recent congressional hearing of the committee on Advances in the Search for Life, Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, said, "Our civilisation is on the verge of discovering evidence of alien life in the cosmos."

He further added, "Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented, discoveries in history."

Zurbuchen reported that NASA’s recent advances, such as the discovery of hydrogen in Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the Hubble team’s promising results from the oceans of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, were promising signs that they were closer than ever to discovering evidence of alien life, the Daily Galaxy reported.

While NASA officials have been optimistic about the existence of alien life, it remains a speculation.

"While we haven’t found definitive signs of life elsewhere just yet, our search is making remarkable progress and astrobiology is a focus of a growing number of NASA missions," Zurbuchen said at the committee meeting.

"For astrobiology, the key thing to remember is that answering the fundamental question of 'is there life out there?' will require scientific breakthroughs from many different science fields, including ones that are not currently engaged in this exciting endeavor. This, however, demonstrates the nature of great research: it’s not just about answering questions that have been asked in the past, it is about finding entirely new questions that will have impact for a long time to come."

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