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The aliens are very close
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
British scientists, after a small experiment with an atmospheric probe, have proven the existence of extraterrestrial life. They managed to discover an alien creature directly in the stratosphere of our native land.
On July 31 this year, researchers launched a probe that rose to an altitude of about 25 km. Attached to the probe were sterile glass slides, which are used to study small organisms under a microscope. As a result of this experiment, samples of microorganisms living at such a high altitude were obtained from the Earth's stratosphere.
As was previously thought, there can be no living creatures at such an altitude. At an altitude of 10 km from the ground, where passenger airliners have long been flying, the temperature reaches minus 100C0, and at a higher altitude, the cosmic cold should simply kill all living things. But as a result of the experiment, even its organizers were surprised. A more detailed study of the organisms living in the stratosphere revealed their closest similarity to terrestrial single-celled algae, but exactly unknown to science. The terrestrial "brothers" in question (diatoms) simply could not survive at such low temperatures, from which scientists concluded that the microorganisms found in the stratosphere are of extraterrestrial origin and are adapted to movement in outer space. Be that as it may, but the discoverers are sure of this. They associate the appearance of microorganisms with the falls of meteorites, which occurred in August, as well as with the famous Chelyabinsk meteorite. Scientists are sure that algae could not have risen to such a height. First of all, clouds that form from water processes on the ground, due to the same cold, do not rise so high. They admit the only reason why this could have happened is a volcanic eruption, but such powerful eruptions have not been recorded recently, and besides, algae do not live in the mouth of a volcano.
In addition, the microorganisms were not found to have the so-called "terrestrial pollen" (known only in scientific circles), which would indicate that they were from our planet. But cosmic dust covers them in abundance. Scientists assume that the microorganisms were covered by an icy comet that migrated throughout the universe and melted near the Earth itself. This version proves the ability of organisms to withstand very low temperatures.
The world's academic circles reacted to the discovery ambiguously. Some scientific luminaries suggest that the microorganisms could have entered the stratosphere as a result of a storm or some other terrestrial process. However, professors honestly admitted that this is not the first case of the discovery of microorganisms unknown to terrestrial science on the very edge of our planet's protective shell. Attempts to discover extraterrestrial life were made by Soviet scientists, and at a much higher altitude and with greater capabilities. Then they also managed to discover "something", but they were unable to explain it, therefore, as is customary in such cases, this "something" was reliably hidden.
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