In a recent article published by Scientific American, a former NASA scientist by the name of Gilbert Levin claimed that he is convinced NASA found alien life on Mars - in the 1970's. However, the data was ignored and not much came of it.

In a recent article published by Scientific American, a former NASA scientist by the name of Gilbert Levin claimed that he is convinced NASA found alien life on Mars – in the 1970’s. However, the data was ignored and not much came of it.

Gilbert was involved with the Viking mission to Mars in 76′ and in the article he states that he firmly believes he found convincing proof of the existence of living microorganisms. However, as previously stated – NASA ignored it and was unwilling to even acknowledge the info that was put in front of them.

What makes this even more interesting is that Levin is not a conspiracy theorist or someone who goes around making bold claims about aliens regularly. He never was, he was actually very well respected as an inventor and engineer. He even started his own research company called “Spherix”, but clearly the evidence he found in 1976 was compelling enough to come forward with such a bold claim.

In his article, Levin says,

“Amazingly, they were positive. As the experiment progressed, a total of four positive results, supported by five varied controls, streamed down from the twin Viking spacecraft landed some 4,000 miles apart.”

Then, later on in the article –

“The data curves signaled the detection of microbial respiration on the Red Planet. The curves from Mars were similar to those produced by LR tests of soils on Earth…It seemed we had answered that ultimate question.”

The viking mission, led by Levin was responsible to taking soil samples that contained organic compounds, and then looked for carbon dioxide. From his research Levin claimed that there was indeed carbon dioxide and it was “being regenerated, possibly by microorganisms as on Earth.”

When Levin came forward with this info NASA immediately shut it down and claimed they had found something that mimicked life, but was not actually alive. Levin, however, who had done countless hours of research and led this mission was 100% sure of his findings – he had the evidence to back all of this up. Again, he was not a “crazy conspiracy theorist.”

Ever since this happened, none of NASA’s Mars landers have carried a life detection instrument to follow through with these findings. Levin says, “Instead the agency launched a series of missions to Mars to determine whether there was ever a habitat suitable for life and, if so, eventually to bring samples to Earth for biological examination.”

NASA has a rover set to launch in July of 2020 and Levin has criticized this because there still is no life detection test. He thinks it should be made a priority, clearly, when he said, “In keeping with well-established scientific protocol, I believe an effort should be made to put life detection experiments on the next Mars mission possible.”

Levin has requested an independent panel of experts to review his findings from 1976. He believes that if this were to happen they too would see that he did indeed discover life on Mars, and that NASA should make it a priority to follow up with his findings.