First British astronaut says aliens exist and could already be on earth

The first British astronaut to go into space has claimed aliens exist and it is possible they are living among us on earth.

Speaking to the Observer Magazine, Dr Helen Sharman said “there’s no two ways” that aliens exist.

“Aliens exist, there’s no two ways about it,” she said.

“There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of different forms of life,” she added.

Dr Sharman, who now works as a chemist at Imperial College, London, said that although aliens may not be made up of carbon and nitrogen like humans, “it’s possible they’re here right now and we simply can’t see them”.

The 56-year-old worked as a chemist before making history as the first British astronaut to participate in a mission to the Soviet modular space station Mir in May 1991.

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