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Nasa partner Robert Bigelow says he is 'absolutely convinced' aliens are currently living on Earth

Extraterrestrials are living right under our noses, apparently

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One of Nasa's partners has said that he is "absolutely convinced" aliens exist – and that they are living on Earth right now.

Robert Bigelow, an entrepreneur who is working closely with Nasa on future space missions, has suggested that he knows that our planet has an alien presence that is "right under our noses".

Mr Bigelow made the announcement during an episode of the show 60 Minutes that focused on his work with the space agency.

His company, Bigelow Aerospace, is developing an expendable craft for humans that can inflate and might provide the space habitats of the future.

They have already been tested out in journeys to the International Space Station. And the two organisations are working on yet more co-operation.

Nasa's most stunning pictures of space

Nasa's most stunning pictures of space

  • 1/30 Earth from the ISS

    From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry W. Virts took this photograph of the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Gulf Coast at sunset

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  • 2/30 Frosty slopes of Mars

    This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater. The image was taken by Nasa's HiRISE camera, which is mounted on its Mars Reconaissance Orbiter

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  • 3/30 Orion Capsule splashes down

    The Orion capsule jetted off into space before heading back a few hours later — having proved that it can be used, one day, to carry humans to Mars

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  • 4/30 The Soyuz TMA-15M rocket launch

    The Soyuz TMA-15M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, carrying three new astronauts to the International Space Station. It also took caviar, ready for the satellite's inhabitants to celebrate the holidays

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  • 5/30 Yellowstone from space

    NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman shared this image of Yellowstone via his twitter account

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  • 6/30 Black Hole Friday

    Nasa celebrated Black Friday by looking into space instead — sharing pictures of black holes

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  • 7/30 NuSTAR

    X-rays stream off the sun in this image showing observations from by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)

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  • 8/30 Saturn

    This near-infrared color image shows a specular reflection, or sunglint, off of a hydrocarbon lake named Kivu Lacus on Saturn's moon Titan

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  • 9/30 Worlds Apart

    Although Mimas and Pandora, shown here, both orbit Saturn, they are very different moons. Pandora, "small" by moon standards (50 miles or 81 kilometers across) is elongated and irregular in shape. Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers across), a "medium-sized" moon, formed into a sphere due to self-gravity imposed by its higher mass

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  • 10/30 Solar Flare

    An X1.6 class solar flare flashes in the middle of the sun in this image taken 10 September, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

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  • 11/30 Solar Flare

    An image from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a 200,000 mile long solar filament ripping through the Sun's corona in September 2013

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  • 12/30 Cassiopeia A c

    A false colour image of Cassiopeia A comprised with data from the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and the Chandra X-Ray observatory

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  • 13/30 Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy

    An image of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy seen in infrared light by the Herschel Space Observatory. Regions of space such as this are where new stars are born from a mixture of elements and cosmic dust

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  • 14/30 Mars Rover Spirit

    Nasa's Mars Rover Spirit took the first picture from Spirit since problems with communications began a week earlier. The image shows the robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack

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  • 15/30 Morning Aurora From the Space Station

    Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph of the green lights of the aurora from the International Space Station

  • 16/30 Launch of History - Making STS-41G Mission in 1984

    The Space Shuttle Challenger launches from Florida at dawn. On this mission, Kathryn Sullivan became the first U.S. woman to perform a spacewalk and Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space. The crew of seven was the largest to fly on a spacecraft at that time, and STS-41G was the first flight to include two female astronauts

  • 17/30 A Fresh Perspective on an Extraordinary Cluster of Galaxies

    Galaxy clusters are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerations of galaxies, hot gas, and dark matter and represent the largest structures in the Universe held together by gravity

  • 18/30 Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant

    Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the Veil Nebula - expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago

  • 19/30 Hubble Sees a Galactic Sunflower

    The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the Nasa Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower

  • 20/30 A Hubble Cosmic Couple

    The spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 — more commonly known as WR 124 — and the nebula M1-67 which surrounds it

  • 21/30 Pluto image

    Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with colour data from the Ralph instrument to create this enhanced colour global view of Pluto

  • 22/30 Fresh Crater Near Sirenum Fossae Region of Mars

    The HiRISE camera aboard Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a "fresh" (on a geological scale, though quite old on a human scale) impact crater in the Sirenum Fossae region of Mars. This impact crater appears relatively recent as it has a sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta

  • 23/30 Earth Observations From Gemini IV in 1965

    This photograph of the Florida Straits and Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV mission during orbit no. 19 in 1965. The Gemini IV crew conducted scientific experiments, including photography of Earth's weather and terrain, for the remainder of their four-day mission following Ed White's historic spacewalk on June 3

  • 24/30 Nasa Celebrates 50 Years of Spacewalking

    For 50 years, NASA has been "suiting up" for spacewalking. In this 1984 photograph of the first untethered spacewalk, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless is in the midst of the first "field" tryout of a nitrogen-propelled backpack device called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU)

  • 25/30 Hubble Peers into the Most Crowded Place in the Milky Way

    This Nasa Hubble Space Telescope image presents the Arches Cluster, the densest known star cluster in the Milky Way

  • 26/30 An Astronaut's View from Space

    Nasa astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on 2 September 2014

  • 27/30 Giant Landform on Mars

    On Mars, we can observe four classes of sandy landforms formed by the wind, or aeolian bedforms: ripples, transverse aeolian ridges, dunes, and what are called “draa”

  • 28/30 Expedition 39 Landing

    A sokol suit helmet can be seen against the window of the Soyuz TMA-11M capsule shortly after the spacecraft landed with Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan

  • 29/30 Jupiter's Great Red Spot Viewed by Voyager I

    Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and perhaps the most majestic. Vibrant bands of clouds carried by winds that can exceed 400 mph continuously circle the planet's atmosphere

  • 30/30 Chandra Observatory Sees a Heart in the Darkness

    This Chandra X-Ray Observatory image of the young star cluster NGC 346 highlights a heart-shaped cloud of 8 million-degree Celsius gas in the central region

But during that episode Mr Bigelow began to talk about his belief in aliens – and his claim that UFOs have come to Earth and extraterrestrials have an "existing presence" here.

“I’m absolutely convinced [that aliens exist]," he told reporter Lara Logan. "That’s all there is to it.”

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Asked by Ms Logan whether he also thought that UFOs had come to Earth, he said he did.

"There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence," Mr Bigelow said. "And I spent millions and millions and millions ― I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.”

Ms Logan then asked if Mr Bigelow thought it was "risky" to say that he believes such things. He said that he doesn't care what people think because it wouldn't "change reality of what I know".

Mr Bigelow didn't give any details about whether the research and private space travel that he is funding had revealed anything about aliens to him.

But he said that the hugely expensive work his company and Nasa are doing won't be required to meet them – he said that people "don't have to go anywhere", because the aliens are "right under people's noses".

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