(April 1, 2011) -- “It was a glowing circular thing,” said senior Leo Megerdich. “I couldn’t believe my eyes.”

Megerdich claimed that he has been visited by extraterrestrials on more than one occasion. Now very enthusiastic about extraterrestrial life, Megerdich claims to have seen a UFO at Brand Park, “I don’t believe that we can be the only living things in the galaxy.”

Megerdich isn’t alone in his beliefs. According to NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover, aliens lifeforms landed on Earth over 50 years ago. In a paper published in The Journal of Cosmology, Hoover claims that microscopic structures found in a meteorite in Siberia are remnants of life forms that do not exist on Earth. Many scientists have dismissed this data because they claim it is simply unconvincing. Hoover is not the only scientist to claim extraterrestrial life on Earth. Fordham University chemist Bartholomew Nagy also made the claim about the same meteorite in the 1960s, but that was also dismissed by the general public.

So why is the general public dismissing such significant discoveries? Intro to Engineering instructor and NASA engineer Hannah Goldberg comments on extraterrestrial life, saying that though anything is possible, this particular case is not supported by NASA, and therefore it is not a reputable source.  “I think we are naive to think that Earth harbors the only source of life in the entire universe, but our definition of life may not be well understood ,” said Goldberg, “We are blind to see intelligence that is beyond understanding the physical nature of the world we live.”

According to a poll in The Washington Post, 84% of people believe aliens exist. Others take a more religious approach. Unlike the majority, most Christian Club members do not believe in aliens. “Aliens are not in the Bible, so it doesn’t make sense for them to exist,” said senior Lynette Hacopian, a Christian Club member.

Although there is no proof, there is a scientific likelihood of other life forms. According to the Drake Equation, an equation used to estimate the number of planets in our galaxy that can communicate with our civilization, NASA currently estimates that there might be around 2.31 civilizations we can communicate with in the milky way.