Simon Holland, a British academic and expert in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, who has produced documentaries for NASA, believes we could be on the verge of the most transformative news in human history. Professor Holland, who has contributed to NASA-funded projects, including one that identifies Earth-threatening asteroids, has revealed that two rival groups of astronomers are racing to be the first to present confirmed evidence of alien life. In an interview with The Mirror, he said: “We have found a non-human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy, and people don’t know about it.” Simon explained that he learned this information from a source within Mark Zuckerberg’s Breakthrough Listen initiative, a privately funded effort focused on discovering evidence of life beyond Earth. He predicts that this groundbreaking revelation could be made public within the next month, coinciding with the US election. According to him, astronomers involved in the Oxford-based project have gathered undeniable evidence of transmissions from another world, The Mirror reports. “They found evidence of a non-human technological signature a few years ago, using the Parkes telescope in Australia,” Simon reveals. Such extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and the team, financed by billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Yuri Milner, is urgently working to secure additional evidence to support their potentially history-altering discovery. However, Simon warns that they may be overtaken. “This is breaking news as of yesterday, but the Chinese might beat them to the punch with their FAST [Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope] program, the largest telescope in the world since Arecibo,” he said. The coordinates of the target, known as BLC-1, are reportedly known to the Chinese, and both teams are competing to make this prestigious announcement. During a re-examination of data from SETI’s “Seti at Home” screensaver program, five potential techno-signature candidates were identified. According to Simon, BLC-1 is by far the most promising. Regardless of the ultimate source of BLC-1’s signals, Simon stresses that it is unlike any known natural phenomenon. “It’s a single-point source,” he explains, “and it’s not just noise.” The researchers are proceeding with extreme caution before making any declarations, but Simon believes that an announcement could come from either Breakthrough Listen in Oxford or the Chinese team within the next month. “It would be wonderful if it coincided with the first woman in the White House,” he quipped. The post Prof. Simon Holland: “We’ve Found Extraterrestrial Intelligence” appeared first on Anomalien.com.