Darwin at shortest odds of where alien contact is likely to occur in Australia after Pentagon official says there is proof aliens have already visited Earth

DARWIN ($8) is at the shortest odds of where alien contact is likely to occur in Australia after a Pentagon official announced there is proof aliens have already visited Earth

A PENTAGON official who ran a $28 million program which investigated the existence of UFOs and aliens says he believes there is evidence that travellers from outer space have already visited earth.

And Australia’s largest online gambling agency, Sportsbet, says Darwin ($8) and Uluru ($15) have the shortest odds of where contact is likely to occur.

Sportsbet’s offs of a first Australian alien contact location

The Territory’s Wycliffe Well was not specifically mentioned by Luis Elizondo, who The Sun reports oversaw the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which ran for five years between 2007 and 2012.

However, it is well-known as the UFO capital of the world and the NT has also had recent “credible” sightings in Tennant Creek and Darwin Harbour.

“My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” Mr Elizondo told CNN’s Erin Burnett.

“These aircraft — we’ll call them aircraft — are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of,” he added.

“These aircraft don’t have any obvious flight services, any obvious forms of propulsion, and are manoeuvring in ways that include extreme manoeuvrability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological. Hypersonic velocities, low observability, positive lift, again, seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics.”

He did include a few words of caution about jumping to conclusions, however.

“A lot of the time, when we don’t have a lot of information, we tend to fill in those gaps with whatever we think is logical. And there is still, by the way, a lot that we really don’t know.” Officials in the US Defence Department this week acknowledged for the first time that they ran the program.

Parts of their shadowy work — which is still continuing to this day — are classified.

But the Pentagon confirmed that audio and video of two US Navy pilots chasing an unidentified flying object near San Diego was investigated as part of the program.