World's largest radio telescope may confirm alien life by 2024

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Press Trust of India London
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 6:57 AM IST

One of the key questions whether extra-terrestrial life exists, could be answered by 2024 with the development of a supersized 1.3 billion pounds radio telescope, the Daily Express reported.

The development of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope will unleash "new and exciting possibilities", according to former UK Ministry of Defence UFO Project leader Nick Pope.

"I will be controversial and give you an exact year of when I believe first confirmation of contact will be made

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First Published: Dec 25 2012 | 3:45 PM IST

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