Some news outlets recently reported that the UN had decided to appoint an ambassador to extra terrestrial life "out there", and as a coup to the Muslim community, this ambassador was to be a Malaysian Muslim called Mazlan Othman.

This sent bookmakers scampering, seeing it as a sign expecting there to be human alien contact to be soon and some even lowered the odds of first contact being in the next year down to much lower odds.

Alas, this story is too good to be true and has since been denied.