Alien Life Research Paper
Extraterrestrial Life
I am sure many of us have questioned ourselves, at one point in our lives, if we are really alone on this planet. Many of us have glanced upwards at the stars and wondered whether there is other life out there somewhere but till this day, nobody really knows the answer.
Extraterrestrial life is life that does not originate from planet Earth. This term is referred to as alien life, or simply “alien”, which is a word many of us, I am sure, have heard or learned about many of times before. The questioning of alien life dates back to the ancient Greeks who were the first to consider the possibility of life on other planets. Later in the 16th century, the discovery of the Copernican model, a model of the solar …show more content…
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health reported studies that life in the universe may have begun “2.5 billion years ago", billions of years before the Earth was formed. Many scientists consider extraterrestrial life to be plausible, but, till this day, there is no direct evidence of its existence. The search for extraterrestrial life started back in the 1950’s when people actually began to act on their curiosity for aliens and therefore began exploring credible ways to look for them. During this time, the space age had dawned, and science was anxious to know what lay in wait beyond the boundaries of our atmosphere. Seven years later in 1957, the
Russians launched the first three Sputnik satellites into Earth’s orbit and following, two years later in 1960, the United States launched the successful Pioneer 5 interplanetary probe out toward Venus. Machines were equipped to travel farther than most of us could imagine; radios were created to detect possible extraterrestrial signals and telescopes were used to search for potentially habitable extra polar planets. But we still, today, have come no closer to unknown planetary systems than if we had never left Earth at …show more content…
It is recorded in his captains log book that he witnessed an unidentified flying object zooming around the night’s sky. As he stood on deck, he saw “a light glimmering at a great distance which vanished and reappeared throughout the night, flying up, down, east and west in sudden and passing gleams”. Another alien encounter took place in
New Hampshire in 1961, when a couple named Betty and Barney Hill were coming back from a holiday vacation in Canada. On their car ride home they noticed a UFO in the sky that eventually got so close to them that Barney stopped the car and got out. The UFO began to move erratically around the sky. Barney got scared and ran back to his car and the couple sped off away from the lights which seemed to vanish behind them. But as they were driving away they felt they had been teleported because, before they knew it, they travelled around 35 miles from where they were, in just two minutes. A few days later Betty began having bizarre nightmares of tall aliens performing horrible operations on her and her husband inside the craft. Eventually,
I am sure many of us have questioned ourselves, at one point in our lives, if we are really alone on this planet. Many of us have glanced upwards at the stars and wondered whether there is other life out there somewhere but till this day, nobody really knows the answer.
Extraterrestrial life is life that does not originate from planet Earth. This term is referred to as alien life, or simply “alien”, which is a word many of us, I am sure, have heard or learned about many of times before. The questioning of alien life dates back to the ancient Greeks who were the first to consider the possibility of life on other planets. Later in the 16th century, the discovery of the Copernican model, a model of the solar …show more content…
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health reported studies that life in the universe may have begun “2.5 billion years ago", billions of years before the Earth was formed. Many scientists consider extraterrestrial life to be plausible, but, till this day, there is no direct evidence of its existence. The search for extraterrestrial life started back in the 1950’s when people actually began to act on their curiosity for aliens and therefore began exploring credible ways to look for them. During this time, the space age had dawned, and science was anxious to know what lay in wait beyond the boundaries of our atmosphere. Seven years later in 1957, the
Russians launched the first three Sputnik satellites into Earth’s orbit and following, two years later in 1960, the United States launched the successful Pioneer 5 interplanetary probe out toward Venus. Machines were equipped to travel farther than most of us could imagine; radios were created to detect possible extraterrestrial signals and telescopes were used to search for potentially habitable extra polar planets. But we still, today, have come no closer to unknown planetary systems than if we had never left Earth at …show more content…
It is recorded in his captains log book that he witnessed an unidentified flying object zooming around the night’s sky. As he stood on deck, he saw “a light glimmering at a great distance which vanished and reappeared throughout the night, flying up, down, east and west in sudden and passing gleams”. Another alien encounter took place in
New Hampshire in 1961, when a couple named Betty and Barney Hill were coming back from a holiday vacation in Canada. On their car ride home they noticed a UFO in the sky that eventually got so close to them that Barney stopped the car and got out. The UFO began to move erratically around the sky. Barney got scared and ran back to his car and the couple sped off away from the lights which seemed to vanish behind them. But as they were driving away they felt they had been teleported because, before they knew it, they travelled around 35 miles from where they were, in just two minutes. A few days later Betty began having bizarre nightmares of tall aliens performing horrible operations on her and her husband inside the craft. Eventually,