Have we already found life?

There have been several instances where controversial evidence suggested that we may have already found life elsewhere in the universe

Allan Hills 84001 In Antarctica on 27 December 1984, a team of American scientists found a meteorite named Allan Hills 84001 (ALH 84001) that shot to fame 12 years later when it was announced that it might contain microscopic fossils of Martian bacteria. However, no conclusive evidence could prove whether this was so. The Viking probes In 1976, NASA landed two probes on Mars, Viking 1 and 2, which had instruments to perform biological experiments on the surface. Controversy surrounded the results; early indications suggested they’d found evidence of organic compounds, but some claimed that the nature of the experiment, which heated soil samples, would have destroyed organics, suggesting the results were erroneous.…

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