Dr. Richard B. Hoover of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center claims to have found proof of alien life. In a study published Friday in the Journal of Cosmology, Hoover says that fossils found in a very rare CI1 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite are conclusive evidence of alien bacterial life.
This is hardly the first such claim, and echoes studies involving the Allan Hills 84001 Martian meteorite that have prompted debate that has been ongoing since 1996. This time NASA came out quickly and indicated that there was no support from other researchers for Hoover’s claims.
Hoover’s study was previously made available for peer review, and those comments are supposed to be published soon, so I’ll withhold judgement for now. Of course, if you’re interested in how the discovery of living alien microbial life might play out, check out In the Shadow of Ares.
UPDATE: NASA Watch questions several aspects of Richard Hoover and his paper, including whether or not he is a doctor of anything. Oops.