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American whistleblower Edward Snowden said he went looking for any evidence of extraterrestrial life hiding in U.S. government documents, but couldn’t find any.

Snowden has just released his new book, “Permanent Record,” which details his life as an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and subcontractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), and his leaking of classified government surveillance information to the press in 2013. In the memoir, he writes that he tried to answer a burning question many conspiracy theorists have been positing for years — whether the U.S. government had found — and was hiding — aliens from the public.

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Like anybody else would be, Snowden was curious. The difference is that Snowden had the security clearance to access classified government documents, so he went looking on the internal network, but to no avail.

“For the record, as far as I could tell, aliens have never contacted Earth, or at least they haven’t contacted U.S. intelligence,” Snowden writes in his book.