-- Humans could make contact with alien life within 12 years,
with the aid of the world's largest radio telescope, a leading
UFO expert has claimed. One of the key questions, whether extra-
terrestrial life exists, could be answered by 2024 with the
development of a supersized 1.3 billion pounds radio telescope,
the Daily Express reported. The development of the Square
Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope will unleash "new and exciting
possibilities", according to former UK ministry of defence UFO
Project leader, Nick Pope. "I will be controversial and give you
an exact year of when I believe first confirmation of contact
will be made - and that is 2024, the year in which if everything
goes according to plan the Square Kilometre Array will be fully
operational," Pope, who studied UFO sightings at the MoD for 21
years, said. The SKA, to be started in 2016, is set to be the
world's largest radio telescope and will answer some of the
fundamental unanswered questions of our universe. Made up of
thousands of radio wave