There have been some amazing discoveries recently in the quest to find habitable worlds around distant stars – something that if UFOs are ever to be proven to be extraterrestrial would first have to be established. In fact, if there were not many such worlds, habitable and reachable from our own Solar System, then the likelihood of alien landings or UFO abductions would be remote and reports of them hard to credit.
As little as 50 years ago, when I took astronomy classes at Manchester University, we surmised that many stars in the billions we know to exist would probably host a system of planets, just like our Sun, but we had little more
