A newly unearthed essay written by Winston Churchill reveals that the former British prime minister believed in the existence of aliens. In an unpublished essay “Are We Alone in the Universe?” Churchill states that he believes that extraterrestrial life definitely exists on planets other than Earth. The essay predicts that humans will one day travel to the Moon and to Mars, and suggests that humans are not the highest type of mental and physical beings in this universe. “I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time,” Churchill wrote. BBC News reports: The 11-page typed draft, probably intended for a newspaper, was updated in the 1950s but never published. In the 1980s, the essay was passed to a US museum, where it sat until its rediscovery last year. The document was uncovered in the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri, by the institution’s new director Timothy Riley. Mr Riley [...]
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