From Daily Mail, 05:30 EST 25 Feb 2026:

" Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars.

He has since spent more than half a century designing probes to land on distant planets – but argues Earth has not yet been visited by other–worldly beings.

'There exists nothing today that says any alien or any alien machine has ever landed on the planet Earth,' he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Phoenix.

'If you believe otherwise, you are being misled.'

According to the expert, in every case of a supposed UFO sighting or alien encounter, there is likely a simpler explanation for those phenomena.

But when it comes to distant planets, life has 'just got to be there somewhere'.

He added: 'We are going to find life of some kind somewhere else. The odds are overwhelming.'
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  1. Oh that guy, he wrote some god-awful sequels to Rendezvous with Rama (which is an amazing book)