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ET: we'll find him, just not yet.

Thousands of UFO enthusiasts got the White House to admit it is actively looking for aliens - but is yet to speak with them.

The Daily Mail reports two petitions - one signed by 5387 people, the other by more than 12,000 - asked the US government to acknowledge that extraterrestrials had contacted the human race.    Full Read