A Virginia state trooper is recovering after an impaired driver hit her patrol vehicle while she was stopped with another motorist for allegedly driving under the influence.

Virginia State Police said Trooper C. Aziz responded to a sedan stopped in the northbound lane of Interstate 495 in Fairfax County at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday. 

The driver of the sedan was still inside the vehicle and refusing to cooperate with the trooper's requests to exit or move the car to safer location, state police said.

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While Aziz was dealing with the sedan driver, a Jeep Cherokee struck a tractor-trailer that was stopped in a travel lane because of where the sedan had stopped.

The Jeep hit the tractor-trailer so hard that it spun around and struck the trooper's patrol car, which caused the patrol vehicle to hit the sedan that was pulled over and the trooper, who was standing outside the sedan's driver-side door.

Dashcam footage from the trooper's patrol vehicle showed the incident, which "amazingly" only left the trooper with minor injuries, police said. She was taken to Fairfax INOVA Hospital to be evaluated.

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The driver of the Jeep was identified as Joanna Hatch, 35. She was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, police said.

Erica Bernard, 43, was the driver of the sedan stopped on the side of the interstate and she was also arrested. She faces charges of driving under the influence of drugs, obstruction, possession of a schedule 1 or 2 substance, refusal of a breathalyzer/blood test and improperly stopping a vehicle on a highway.

Both Hatch and Bernard were taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.

Researchers at Harvard University and Montana Technological University speculated that an unidentified, technologically advanced population could be living among humans secretly on Earth.

In a new paper, the team hypothesized that sightings of UFOs (or UAP, unidentified anomalous phenomena) "may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the Moon), and/or even 'walking among us' (e.g., passing as humans)."

The researchers admitted that their research was "likely to be regarded skeptically by most scientists," but urged the scientific community to consider their claim "in a spirit of epistemic humility and openness."

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In the paper, the scientists explained the hypothesis for aliens on Earth.

The researchers said that they believe that "remnant forms," which are an ancient, highly advanced human civilization, are walking among humans on earth. 

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The research also shared the possible existence of a non-human underground civilization that may be "descendants of unknown, intelligent dinosaurs."

Third there could be hidden occupants, likened to earthbound angels or fairies, on Earth that have traveled to Earth.

The research papers quotes former House Representative Mike Gallagher, who suggested last year that one explanation for the UFO sightings might be "an ancient civilization that’s just been hiding here, for all this time, and is suddenly showing itself right now.

Gallagher's comment came after UFO whistleblower David Grusch testified under oath that his life was threatened and he was instructed to keep quiet about a secret government-run crashed UFO retrieval program. 

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Grusch's explosive testimony in July 2023 claimed that the U.S. government "absolutely" has UFO tech and "biologics" of "non-human origins" since the 1930s and knows the exact locations where they're being held.