The Sunday Mail
Tendai Chara – Extra Reporter
The alleged sighting of an unidentified flying object at Ariel Primary School in Ruwa some 20 years ago is one of the most significant and most puzzling in the study of extraterrestrial (ET) life.
Although 62 pupils are said to have witnessed this, and then gave almost similar accounts of it, the existence of ET life remains a hotly debated topic globally.
Twenty years to the date of the said sighting, we are no nearer to coming to conclusive findings to support or disprove the existence of life “out there”.
Since the turn of the 20th century, there has been never-ending research into the matter.
Scientists consider the probability of extraterrestrial life to be possible and discoveries are increasingly pointing to the presence of life on other planets not in our solar system.
In July, the United States space agency, NASA, said it was certain alien life exists. The agency has found more than 5 000 planets that could sustain life.
In a milestone achievement in the search of alien life, the agency has located a planet the size of Earth orbiting a habitable zone beyond the solar system.
Research also shows there may be as many as 40 billion Earth-like planets in existence and that life might have developed in such planets as Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.
Previously, the United States government denied the existence of ET life.
But in 2011 it was forced to release an official response after receiving two petitions asking the government to acknowledge formally that aliens have visited earth.
One petition maintained that the government was withholding information on its interactions with ET beings.
In its response the United States government said then that it does not have evidence to prove that life exists outside our planets or that the human race has engaged aliens.
The response, however, went on to say that the “odds are pretty high” that there might be life on other planets. The US government said distances between Earth and other planets made contact almost impossible.
The Exopolitics World Network, which calls itself an international “truth movement seeking formal acknowledgment of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race”, is at the forefront of compelling developed countries to admit to the presence of ET life.
They believe that the US and other developed countries are deliberately withholding information that proves engagement with non-human beings and that they have had contact with aliens since the 1940s.
Aliens, who are believed to be more technologically advanced, are even said to have abducted humans although scientists dismiss such claims as hoaxes.
Several science fiction novels and films are premised on such beliefs but no widely accepted evidence of aliens has been found.
