Hello, Towered in London at the home of the unexplained with a bizarre and exciting, of course,

breaking story.

If you were listening to my radio show last night, the 13th of September, you would have

heard me talking with Dr. David Whitehouse, a former BBC Space and Science editor, a

very important man in his field, the author of the new book, Space 2069, talking about

reports that had the internet on fire over the weekend.

Twitter was ablaze with it, a number of websites, including some respected ones, had carried

this story ahead of its official release.

The idea that organisms may be floating in the clouds of Venus, the planet Venus, the

discovery of phosphine in those clouds of Venus.

On Earth, phosphine is associated with life, with microbes living in the guts of animals

like penguins, or in the oxygen-poor environment such as swamps.

Apparently there are only two ways that you can make phosphine that is from living things

or in a laboratory, and I'm assuming there are no laboratories on Venus.

So, scientists have made this discovery, but the way that it got out was I think the

most bizarre I've ever seen in my lifetime.

And Dr. David Whitehouse, I was guided by him yesterday, he said that he was very happy

more than happy to talk about this, even though it had been broken, effectively on Twitter,

and a number of space websites that had carried the story.

Now that has been confirmed on Monday that phosphine, it seems, has been discovered in

the clouds above the planet Venus, which is an enormous discovery and is an extremely

strange way for this news to have got out to the world, but I'm now looking at the news

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