A paper by a team of American scientists published in the January 2005 edition of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society proposes that the likelihood that the earth is being visited by extraterrestrial visitors is quite high. The paper, titled “Inflation-Theory Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitation” even goes as far as to suggest that UFO reports may provide evidence of such visits. The scientists pick up where “Fermi’s Paradox” left off. Named after Enrico Fermi, a physicist, the paradox takes the theory that the universe is so vast and diverse it must have produced advanced civilisations (capable of using worm holes for interstellar travel) on other planets and asks, “Well, where are they?”.

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It’s good to see serious scientists taking this subject a little more, er, seriously. This is too important to be left to well meaning amateurs with beards and anoraks. It should be noted that the leading scientific journals in the US and the UK refused to even submit the paper for review, let alone publish it.

Give it another twenty years and the aliens will be coming out of the closet: mark my words. You read it here first! And no, they’re not all cuddly like ET was 😉