Extraterrestrial

'No aliens in Area 51' says NASA head

By T.K. Randall
June 19, 2015

Image: Area 51 Main Gate
Credit: David James Henry / CC BY-SA 4.0 (adapted) Bolden, who became the administrator of NASA back in 2009, had been answering questions put to him by schoolchildren on the channel's Hot Seat programme when he was asked about alien life.

"I do believe that we will someday find other forms of life or a form of life, if not in our solar system then in some of the other solar systems - the billions of solar systems in the universe," he said.

When asked about Area 51 he went on to mention that he had visited the secretive base himself."I've been to a place called that but it's a normal research and development place," he said. "I never saw any aliens or alien spacecraft or anything when I was there. I think because of the secrecy of the aeronautics research that goes on there it's ripe for people to talk about aliens being there."

Bolden however was confident that evidence of alien life would be found sooner or later.

"Today we know that there are literally thousands, if not millions of other planets, many of which may be very similar to our own earth," he said. "So some of us, many of us believe that we're going to find evidence that there is life elsewhere in the universe."

Source: Independent

Tags: Charles Bolden, NASA