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- Ring is offering a prize for anyone who captures proof of aliens on their doorbell camera.
- The company is telling users to submit videos of UFOs for review by an "extraterrestrial expert."
- It comes amid a rising number of UFO sightings in the US.
Evidence is growing that there is life on other worlds – and now Ring is offering a $1 million prize for anyone with hard proof.
The Amazon-owned smart home security device company said it will offer the prize to anyone who captures "unaltered scientific evidence" of extraterrestrial life on their doorbell camera.
"With new sightings and further evidence that life forms might exist beyond Earth's atmosphere, there's a possibility that Extraterrestrial activity could be happening right outside your front door," Ring wrote in a blog post on Wednesday, inviting users to submit videos to their website where they will be reviewed by a "Space and Extraterrestrial Expert."
Considering NASA and SETI have been searching for alien life for decades, the chances of anyone winning is low – but it's more evidence of the growing craze around UFOs.
In July, a former US intelligence official told a congressional hearing that "non-human biologics" were recovered from alleged UFO crash sites.
David Grusch told the House Oversight Committee that the government had been running a multi-decade "crash retrieval and reverse engineering program" for unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) that had crash-landed in the US. The Pentagon denied this.
The number of sightings of UAPs has spiked in recent years, with the US government tracking some 650 UAP incidents.
A NASA report into unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) released last month found no evidence that aliens were behind the hundreds of unexplained sightings but did not rule out the possibility.
The space agency did cast doubt on the viral "alien" corpses presented to a congressional hearing in Mexico. The two small bodies, which had elongated heads and three fingers on each hand, were exhibited by longtime UFO expert Jaime Maussan, who said they were over 1,000 years old and of alien origin. The hearing was panned as a "stunt" by scientists and fellow UFO enthusiasts.
Ring's entry into the UFO hunt comes just months after the FTC accused the company of failing to protect customer privacy and allowing employees to access private videos.
Ring paid $5.8 million and agreed to implement a new system for data security to settle the lawsuit in May, with a spokesperson telling Insider at the time that the company had addressed the issues well before the FTC filed its complaint.
Ring did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.