Do aliens exist? Few debates have proved as enduring – or as divisive – as the question of whether there is life beyond Earth.
Last month, Barack Obama unwittingly reignited it during a podcast interview, casually declaring that aliens are “real” (albeit not housed in Area 51).
Obama’s comments sparked a media frenzy, prompting the former president to clarify his position shortly afterwards. “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” he said. “But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens are low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
Really. And yet… Many people remain unconvinced, believing that not only do aliens exist, they have actually made contact with people on earth – even the majority of The Telegraph’s sensible and sober-minded readership are in agreement.
A recent poll, voted on by 15,000 readers, found that 84 per cent believe aliens are real – some of whom wrote in to tell us about their extraterrestrial encounters.
Lucia Gillot was 17 when she came face to face with something she still cannot explain. On a late-night walk in 1982 near her family’s second home near Nefyn, on the Llŷn Peninsula in North-West Wales, she saw a mysterious figure.
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