{"id":13931,"date":"2015-04-06T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13931"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:00:02","slug":"this-scientist-says-he-keeps-finding-aliens-in-the-stratosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/this-scientist-says-he-keeps-finding-aliens-in-the-stratosphere","title":{"rendered":"This Scientist Says He Keeps Finding Aliens in the Stratosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/author\/JasonKoebler\">Jason Koebler<\/a> \u2014 Motherboard<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not easy convincing the world you\u2019ve found aliens. But that\u2019s what one British professor says he\u2019s done, over and over again. His latest proof, he tells me, is his strongest yet. Should we take him seriously?<\/p>\n<p>In fall of 2013, Milton Wainwright, a researcher at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, made international headlines when he claimed that microorganisms he found in the stratosphere were not of this world. The organisms are believed to come from a class of algae called diatoms, were collected roughly 16 miles above the Earth\u2019s surface using a balloon, and, according to Wainwright, have been raining down on the Earth, carried by meteorites, for perhaps many millennia. <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/this-scientist-says-he-keeps-finding-aliens-in-the-stratosphere\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Koebler \u2014 Motherboard It\u2019s not easy convincing the world you\u2019ve found aliens. But that\u2019s what one British professor says he\u2019s done, over and over again. His latest proof, he tells me, is his strongest yet. Should we take him seriously? In fall of 2013, Milton Wainwright, a researcher at the University of Sheffield in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64773,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931\/revisions\/64773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}