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Press claims UN names an 'alien ambassador'; UN official denies it

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Mazlan Othman, director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, in 2010
Mazlan Othman, head of UNOOSA, in June 2010, months before the alien ambassador reports US Mission/Bednarzek, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

British press reported that Mazlan Othman, head of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, would coordinate humanity's response to alien contact. She denied it to the Guardian, and at an October 2010 UN press conference said she had not been and would not be appointed.

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  1. OfficialPress Conference by Director of Office for Outer Space AffairsUnited Nations / 2010-10-14
  2. PressGuardian Quashes Alien Ambassador StoryColumbia Journalism Review / 2010-09-27

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