August 2, 1996
Source: Reuter
LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuter) - A British gambler won 1,000 pounds ($1,540) with a bet he placed last August that alien life would be discovered within a year, The Sun newspaper said.
Little expecting Wednesday's announcement from NASA that it had found evidence in a meteorite that life once existed on Mars, bookmaker William Hill gave odds of 10-to-one on the bet placed on August 21, 1995.
``I'll spend my winnings on a fantastic holiday, but I won't be going quite as far as Mars,'' winner Steve Upton told The Sun.
William Hill earlier said it had cut its odds on the discovery within a year of intelligent alien life to 25-to-one from 500-to-one.
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