The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has dismissed media accounts saying the agency has issued a report describing possible scenarios for attacks on the human race from the outer space.
According to a report published in Acta Astronautica science magazine in November 2010, aliens may decide to exterminate the human race because of the threats it poses to other civilizations.
The report said extra-terrestrial aliens are likely to destroy humanity to save Earth from global warming and save the Cosmos from humans spreading their nature-abusing carbon footprints across the Milky Way.
The study began to frighten the general public after media released headlines such as "NASA REPORT: Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilizations..." and "NASA: Aliens May Destroy Humanity Over Greenhouse Gases."
One of the study's authors, postdoctoral student Shawn Domagal-Goldman, who works at NASA Headquarters, initiated the controversy. Domagal-Goldman, who admitted that the NASA affiliation was a horrible mistake, issued a public apology. "It was just a fun paper written by a few friends, one of whom happens to have a NASA affiliation," Domagal-Goldman wrote.
