A green, glowing mass shaped like the top half of a skull has been discovered in Earth's stratosphere and is being hailed as the latest proof that aliens exist.

The luminous mass is thought to be a cluster of thousands of "virus particles" loaded with extra-terrestrial DNA - the code of life.

The mysterious object was discovered on the surface of a testing balloon sent 41km into the sky over India in the highest such experiment to date, reports Express. The harmless-looking blob is thought to be capable of "seeding" the planet with alien genetic material. Though it looks like a complete organic mass, deep analysis has revealed it to be "a cluster of minuscule potentially virulent particles," states the website report.

Professor Milton Wainwright, a researcher at the University of Sheffield and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, discovered this unique object. According to him, these are individual particles with the exact dimensions of viruses.

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