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Published 13:58 24 May 2023 BST
Updated 13:58 24 May 2023 BST

A Stanford University professor says he not only "100 per cent" believes aliens have visited Earth, he thinks they've "been here for a long time" and might still be hanging about.
Dr Gary Nolan, a professor of pathology at the university's medical school, made the claim during last week’s Salt iConnections conference in Manhattan at a session titled, 'The Pentagon, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Crashed UFOs', the New York Post reported.
The Post said Nolan was asked by moderator, Alex Klokus, if he believes extraterrestrial life had visited Earth, and replied, "I think you can go a step further — it hasn’t just visited, it’s been here a long time, and it’s still here."
He continued: "You know, people talk about the ‘Wow! signal’ looking for extraterrestrial intelligence. The ‘Wow! signal’ is that people see it on an almost regular basis, that’s the communication that’s already here."
The 'Wow! signal' was a burst of radio waves captured from outer space on 15 August 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope. It was then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
The signal was 30 times stronger than typical background radiation and prompted some astronomers to believe it may have come from aliens looking for other signs of life. Scientists have since suggested the sound may have come from a pair of comets.
Klokus asked Nolan how sure he was about his claim, suggesting it might be "tough to believe".
The professor was without a doubt, saying he was "100 per cent" sure.
"And that’s not just my opinion. The National Defense Authorization Act passed last year, signed by [President] Biden in December. Thirty pages of that is the establishment of an unidentified aerial phenomena office."
According to Nolan, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has a staff of about 25 tasked with "collecting the information across all of the US Department of Defense, intelligence offices, and collation of that into a uniform format for the very first time, and provision of that then to Congress."
A whistleblower programme, created so people could give Congress information in a classified setting, Nolan said, was passed information last weekend that "created quite a hornet's nest in Washington".
The Post reported that when Nolan was asked what the strongest piece of evidence he had to back his claims, he simply pointed to what the US government is doing "right now".
Read the Post article here.
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