Churchill essay on the possibility of alien life discovered in US college
by Ian Sample Science editor from on (#2CSYT)
Winston Churchill's essay Are We Alone in the Universe? was penned the year before he became prime minister, and reveals his keen interest in science
It might never have seen the light of day. Lost and long forgotten, the unpublished essay by Winston Churchill was penned a year before he became Britain's prime minister. The matter to which he applied his great mind? Not politics, not the battlefield, but the existence of alien life.
The 11-page article was probably intended for the now defunct Sunday newspaper the News of the World, but for reasons unknown the essay remained with his publisher and only recently resurfaced at the US National Churchill Museum at Westminster College in Missouri.