LONDON: A Nasa scientist claims to have discovered an alien life
form — an out-of-this-world bacteria in meteorites which have
fallen in remote areas across globe. According to Dr Richard
Hoover, an astrobiologist with Nasa's Marshall Space Flight
Centre , the alien life form could explain how life on Earth
started. He explains that travelling to Antarctica, Siberia and
Alaska, he has studied an extremely rare form of meteorites —
CI1 carbonaceous chondrites — of which only nine are known to
exist on Earth. "I interpret it as indicating that life is more
broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet
Earth. This field of study has just barely been touched —
because, quite frankly, a great many scientists would say that
this is impossible." "The exciting thing is that they (the
bacteria) are in many cases recognisable and can be associated
very closely with the generic species here on Earth." "There are
some that are just very strange and don't look like anything
that I've been able to identify , a