Winston Churchill wanted the human race to search for aliens.
Winston Churchill wanted to hunt for aliens
UFO expert Avi Loeb has revealed that the late British statesman had encouraged the hunt for extraterrestrial life in a 1939 essay before his plans were thwarted by the outbreak of World War II.
The physicist, known for his outspoken views on aliens, told the Joe Rogan Podcast: "Winston Churchill in 1939, wrote an essay about the fact that there could be life around on other planets, around other stars and we should search for it.
"Now, he didn't have a chance to publish it because he became Prime Minister and then had to fight the Second World War against the Nazi regime."
The paper was eventually unearthed in 2017 and Loeb thinks that money wasted during the war could have been spent hunting for alien life.
He said: "So much money was wasted in that war. If that money was allocated to the search for extraterrestrial life, the way that Churchill envisioned it before the war we might have, we might have known the answer by now."