Aliens live among us, says first Brit into space

And other stories from the stranger side of life

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The first Briton to venture into space says aliens exist and are possibly among us on Earth. Dr Helen Sharman said: “Aliens exist, there's no two ways about it… there must be all sorts of different forms of life among the billions of stars.” She travelled to the Soviet space station Mir in May 1991.

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