Advanced alien probes could be watching our every move, warns former MoD UFO investigator

MANKIND has long had an obsession with looking out for aliens… but what if they find us first?

Nick Pope, who used to run the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project, believes hyper-intelligent ETs may have already clocked our backwards little planet – and they could be watching our every move.

The UFO buff spoke to the Sun Online after alien hunters got all worked up about Oumuamua, a cigar-shaped asteroid that some scientists thought could be an alien spaceship.

Because of its unusual shape, researchers even scanned the 400-metre asteroid for alien tech.

And although the scans didn’t flag any signs of life, Nick thinks we can’t rule out the idea that our planet is being watched by more advanced beings.

He said: “While nothing has been found yet, there’s another intriguing possibility: If this ship is an alien probe, it’s possible that our scans will awake the intelligence inside.”

Some argue that this intelligence could take the form of either biological life or hyper-advanced AI, sent from deep space to keep an eye on our primitive world.

Nick added: “Simply put, any alien ship searching for life may go into a dormant mode until it gets close to an inhabited planet.

“But what’s fascinating about this theory is just how many astronomers and other scientists are taking the idea seriously.

“It’s a sign of how accepting we are these days about the likelihood of finding alien life”

And it’s not just eccentric conspiracy theorists and sci-fi geeks getting excited about finding ET: even the Pentagon has been conducting multi-million-pound research into UFOs and alien life.

Nick says the recent news about the Pentagon’s UFO search is huge, proving governments are taking the idea of extraterrestrial life more seriously than they often let on.

He said: “It’s an extraordinary revelation, not least because it directly contradicts the many specific denials that the US government has issued previously when asked about this subject and their involvement in it.”

“The take-home message here is that there’s probably something out there, but we don’t know what it is.”