The Government’s Official Stance on Phoning Home

Q. Has anyone at the White House seen an alien? A. “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race.” (But: “Many scientists and mathematicians have looked with a statistical mindset at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life.” Although: “The odds of us making contact with them … are extremely small.”)