A Cullingworth man is organising a conference focusing on extraterrestrial life and UFO activity.
Anthony Beckett is spearheading the fifth annual British Exopolitics Expo, being held at Huddersfield University on September 28.
The event will include a lecture by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe.
Mr Beckett said that in the 1970s the professor and a colleague sparked controversy when they concluded from investigations that interstellar dust, laying between the stars, contained life.
“Other scientists were not quite ready to accept the concept that life – in the form of bacteria and viruses – existed in space,” he added.
Mr Beckett is executive producer of Exopolitics Great Britain, an organisation which aims to raise awareness of the issues.
For further information, visit exopoliticsgb.com.
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