British professor Dr Milton Wainwright has claimed he had found proof that we are not alone in space.
Since 2013, he has been trying to convince the scientific community that he has found aliens in Earth's stratosphere.
Now he claims he has new evidence of these 'extra-terrestrial organisms' floating 25 miles above Earth.
He says the organisms are contained in a microscopic metal globe designed by an intelligent species to 'seed' alien life on Earth.
Dr Wainwright announced the discovery in an email to his students at Sheffield University, who posted it on Reddit.
He told Jason Koebler at Motherboard: "We sent balloons and a sampler and found no pollen or grass, nothing up there to contaminate, it was completely pristine.
"For these reasons, we think [the organisms] are coming from space. "All the time when you walk outside, you are being pelted with organisms that come from space." Dr Wainwright's research has been widely criticised by the scientific community as being backed by poor and flimsy evidence.
"The critics claim that the samples we obtained must have come from Earth, that it that there must be a mechanism which can lift these particles from Earth to the stratosphere," Dr Wainwright told Dailymail.com.
"However, we have provided evidence that the DNA-containing masses, plus other strange organisms we have isolated are not associated with pollen, grass and fungal spores on our sampler.
"If our organisms came from Earth they must be contaminated with common Earth organisms and they are not.
"We will probably not be believed until Nasa repeats our findings.
"I suspect that Nasa will then try and take the credit by claiming that their methods were somehow more sterile or precise."
Dr Wainwright and his colleagues have published their findings in the Journal of Cosmology but their conclusions have yet to be corroborated by other scientists.
Two years ago it controversially published a paper that claimed to have identified fossils of microbiotic life in a meteorite, sparking a blaze of publicity, but was also met with a great deal of skepticism. The idea that life can survive high the Earth's atmosphere, however, is not new. Scientists working with Nasa recently discovered bacteria living up to five miles above the Earth's surface.
However, most scientists believe they are likely to have been carried up from Earth rather than having an extraterrestrial origin.
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