Slashdot linked up an article that describes the potential discovery of an honest-to-god ET life-form:

There is a small bottle containing a red fluid on a shelf in Sheffield University's microbiology laboratory. The liquid looks cloudy and uninteresting. Yet, if one group of scientists is correct, the phial contains the first samples of extraterrestrial life isolated by researchers.

Independent research has confirmed whatever was in the rain, it wasn't terrestrial dust. Hardly anyone at this time seems to accept that the phial is filled with tiny bug-eyed monsters, but with samples available it seems only a matter of time until some firm conclusion is reached.

To think all this time all those chicken littles could've been right after all...