Extra-terrestrial life, also called alien life, is life that occurs away from planet Earth. Many people have questions, they wonder if aliens exist or if they are just a myth. But I think they do exist. It is believed that the favourable habitats of aliens are Mars, some areas on Saturn’s moon Enceladus (sixth-largest moon of Saturn), whose south post is spotted with fountains, and Jupiter’s moons Europa and Callisto (the second-largest moon of Jupiter.   In the Soviet Union, sightings of UFOs (unidentified flying objects) were regularly reported by tests of mystery military rockets. To hide the actual tests, the administration supported the general people’s conviction that these rockets may be extraterrestrial. According to various studies, 48% of Americans think UFOs are genuine, and 29% believe that we have reached ‘the outsiders’. It is believed that Alien appearances depend on; an endeavour to impact the eventual fate of mankind, an endeavour to caution or educate and, experimental use. We are likely to see aliens in movies acting dangerous, and some of us think that they are just fiction, but aliens might exist, and their existence was argued by many individuals, like famous French statesman, Napoleon Bonaparte, who claimed he had been abducted by aliens. He truly was missing for several days in July 1794.

There was also Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov, a Russian businessman and politician, who drew worldwide attention for claiming that in September 1997 he was taken from his flat by aliens and travelled in their spaceship, visiting another planet. He claimed three of his staff searched his flat during this, failing to find him, and could not explain how he then reappeared in his bedroom an hour later.

The author is an aspiring writer at Inyange Girls School of Science