UPDATE: Skeptics are beginning to come forward… heavily against the likelihood of this being true.
Its an extraordinary claim. So, Dr. Richard B. Hoover – the NASA scientist who is publishing this work – took the extraordinary step of inviting peer review and criticism BEFORE publication.
“Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis,” Schild wrote in an editor’s note along with the article. “No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published, he wrote.”