My question is a simple one, but it requires that we momentarily make a pretty big assumption; that being, that intelligent extra-terrestrial life exists, and has been in contact with Earth, and that the American government has known about it for at least sixty years.
I'm sure most if not all of you are familiar with the old tales of Roswell, Area 51, the military cover-up of the discovery of crashed UFO debris and alien bodies, etc. But the story grows much larger and stranger from that point. Many cospiracy theorists and ufologists point to a document written by someone at the Brookings Instititute in 1960-61, which they believe provides the intellectual backbone to a popular belief that knowledge of a technologically superior alien race would cause havoc in our society. At the time it was thought that the world's major religions would face direct challenges to their fundamental premises, that scientists would be confounded by knowledge of vastly advanced technologies and theories, and that people in general would just feel awful. The report was submitted to the House of Representatives in 1961 and the theorists believe the government used this report as vindication to keep any and all evidence of intelligent E.T. life secret from the common people. The claims that the report explicitly advises the keeping of government secrets may be exaggerated. Here's a link to a Wikipedia article about the report:
[link] But others who believe in extra terrestrials are concerned about the safety of Earthlings. In 1999 a non-governmental organization in France used the expertise of high ranking officers and officials of the French government and military to create something called the COMETA report
[link] . In the report, these officials conclude that about 5% of observable UFO activity was best explained as extra-terrestrial technology, which could certainly pose a military threat considering the implications of their incredible abilities. The report also accuses the American government of a massive cover-up of evidence for extra-terrestrials. In Mexico, there are so many UFO sightings that I can't even begin to supply sufficient links for all of them. Just Google Mexico and UFO and you'll find plenty to keep you occupied. But one point of particular interest is a press release in 2004 by the Mexican Department of Defense, in which they released what they believed to be video of a flap of UFOs that was captured by infrared cameras on a Merlin C26 during a drug-surveillance mission. This made a big splash in media around the world for a short while. But when the Department of Defense for any country releases this kind of information, you know they're at the very least perplexed, if not downright worried. Here's a link to a story about that:
[link]I could go on for twenty journals about different writings and videos on UFOs, but the question I wanted to raise for you guys is, do you think the people of Earth would be ready for full disclosure of extra-terrestrial life by the major governments? Do you think most people would be OK with it, or do you think it would change everything? Consider the implications. For certain religious people this could be a devastating blow, to know that there are other intelligent beings in the cosmos that were never accounted for in their holy books. Would it throw a monkey wrench in their most basic beliefs? Maybe, but maybe not. Check out this story
[link] and read about how even the Vatican is now not only saying that aliens may exist, but that they should be considered as cosmic brothers. I don't know how other religions outside of Catholicism would officially react to the news. But even if they were all cool with it, you'd still have a ton of people freaking out and expecting "Independence Day" to happen.
If you don't have an opinion on how the world in general would react, then how would you react to this kind of news? Now I'm not talking about the nuts and weirdos coming out and saying this, I'm talking Barack Hussein Obama getting on Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and yeah, even MSNBC and saying, in no uncertain terms, that intelligent, extra-terrestrial life exists, and the government has known about it for decades. There may be a couple extra tidbits thrown in, like "and we've been working with several different species on above-top-secret projects for years," etc. Would this be cause for elation? Would you drop a brick in your pants? I'm just wondering. An additional question would be, do you actually think something like this really IS going on? I would't be at all surprised, but then again I'm a UFO nut anyway.
Deric
OH MY JESUS!!!!!
Joy
