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Aliens DO exist – they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran claims
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 05:37 EST, 25 February 2026 | Xantha Leatham, Executive Science Editor

Posted on 02/25/2026 10:44:13 AM PST by Olog-hai

Aliens exist — they just haven’t visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed.

Dr. Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He has since spent more than half a century designing probes to land on distant planets — but argues Earth has not yet been visited by otherworldly beings.

“There exists nothing today that says any alien or any alien machine has ever landed on the planet Earth,” he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Phoenix. “If you believe otherwise, you are being misled.”

According to the expert, in every case of a supposed UFO sighting or alien encounter, there is likely a simpler explanation for those phenomena. But when it comes to distant planets, life has “just got to be there somewhere”. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aaas; aliens; gentrylee; lee; nasa; scifiauthor; speculation
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1 posted on 02/25/2026 10:44:13 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Of course, another one with the AAAS, who has been notorious lately for pushing DEI.


2 posted on 02/25/2026 10:45:22 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

They never write. They never call!


3 posted on 02/25/2026 10:47:24 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: Olog-hai

Most accurate statement possible on the matter.

Aliens, ETS, etc, do not exist, have never existed and therefore have never been here.


4 posted on 02/25/2026 10:48:34 AM PST by Az Joe (The Confederate State of Minnesota. Down with the rebels!)
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To: Larry Lucido

The ones that cross the southern border illegally do, but only to their relatives in their countries of origin.


5 posted on 02/25/2026 10:48:51 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
Aliens DO exist – they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran claims

Well. There ya go.

6 posted on 02/25/2026 10:49:19 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Olog-hai

I will bet he is an atheist.

“I see no evidence of God, therefore he can’t exist.”

But ETs...

“I see no physical evidence of Aliens yet, but they just HAVE to exist, the odds are overwhelming”.

Pick your religion.


7 posted on 02/25/2026 10:50:15 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Az Joe

The most accurate answer is, “there is no evidence either way regarding the existence of aliens. They may or may not exist but we have no evidence of their existence, but concede the possibility they exist but can’t contact us.”


8 posted on 02/25/2026 10:51:49 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Az Joe
Demons exist.


9 posted on 02/25/2026 10:54:00 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Olog-hai
“There exists nothing today that says any alien or any alien machine has ever landed on the planet Earth,” he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Phoenix. “If you believe otherwise, you are being misled.”

Then what is the basis for his statement that aliens do exist? Just some probability judgment?

10 posted on 02/25/2026 10:54:14 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Olog-hai

Spaceforce needs an ICE division.


11 posted on 02/25/2026 10:57:38 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: Olog-hai

12 posted on 02/25/2026 11:01:01 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

The size of the universe or even our galaxy means that there is most likely life on other planets other than Earth.
They seem to be finding planets and moons fairly regularly with our limited scope of the Milky Way where there is a possibility of life.

The possibility that life form is advanced enough to visit here is the question. Unless they have some method to travel through space that defies our understanding of Speed of Light travel. Meaning some type of travel that we can not fathom. Making the distance between these planets something that can be done in much less than multiple Light Years.


13 posted on 02/25/2026 11:02:06 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Olog-hai

Given our existence and the size of the universe, aliens are likely to exist somewhere. The distances involved make it possible we will never know. We aren’t capable of space travel far enough to learn anything and maybe they aren’t either.

If we are alone God created a lot of useless universe.


14 posted on 02/25/2026 11:05:54 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: Olog-hai

So, they are intelligent.


15 posted on 02/25/2026 11:06:35 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Olog-hai

Obammy Says They Do exist aswell...
Then the article Dropped !?!
.
Coincidence?

I Think Not!


16 posted on 02/25/2026 11:06:44 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Resist Satan's Tyranny )
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To: Larry Lucido

They always lock the doors on their spaceships when they fly past Earth.


17 posted on 02/25/2026 11:08:41 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Olog-hai

Aliens, if they do exist are too far away from Earth to ever visit us. It will never happen.


18 posted on 02/25/2026 11:09:18 AM PST by rexthecat
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To: SaxxonWoods

“If we are alone God created a lot of useless universe.”

I think it’s beautiful. The night sky and the daytime sky.
And it’s fascinating. People have been studying it for years.
They will continue to study it for years.
Our Lord made our whole universe fascinating.
The ocean, our bodies, light, soil, gas, everything.


19 posted on 02/25/2026 11:12:40 AM PST by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: Dalberg-Acton

They always lock the doors on their spaceships when they fly past Earth.


“Roll ‘em up!”


20 posted on 02/25/2026 11:12:43 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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