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[Teyu]

I do not think people would get crazy or mad if she knew of the existence of aliens. But I believe that knowledge would raise many questions and hardly can be answered.
On the other hand, the only reason the government decided to cover the existence of aliens is that they knew that they are capable and that's what makes them think that people would go crazy when they know that.

[Bikerman]

Teyu, on 06 December 2010 - 12:23 AM, said:

I do not think people would get crazy or mad if she knew of the existence of aliens. But I believe that knowledge would raise many questions and hardly can be answered.
On the other hand, the only reason the government decided to cover the existence of aliens is that they knew that they are capable and that's what makes them think that people would go crazy when they know that.

It simply isn't credible. Governments are incapable of keeping even fairly minor secrets for long. The idea that the US government could keep the lid on confirmed UFO contacts, let alone dealings, is simply a non starter.
The US government is certainly capable of putting out misinformation when it suits and that is what happened with the UFO issue. When the issue began to really take-off it was the height of the cold war. The US had all sorts of secret tests going on and UFOs was a nice cover story for sightings of some of the more radical hardware, like the stealth planes. The military decided to let the UFO stories run - they may even have encouraged a few here and there. The result is that people now ask for papers from the military and find mentions of UFOs redacted (blacked-out). They then assume that this is because the military are trying to hide the fact that they have UFOs when, in fact, various people in the military are just watching their backs and trying to hide any false-stories they might have spread at the time.
The whole notion of UFOs is a no-brainer. Of course there are unidentified flying objects - I've seen a few myself. The notion that they were craft driven by aliens, however, is about the least likely of all the possible explanations, and just because another possibility is not always obvious, that doesn't mean that this shows it was an alien craft.
Likewise aliens - I'm pretty sure there are aliens out there. I'm also pretty sure that they are:
a) Not within range of earth and never likely to be. The speed of light is a harsh mistress and will brook no cheek. It seems to be an absolute limit on velocity within space-time and if so that means any trip to alien planets (or their trip to us) is likely to be a generational affair - taking longer than a person lives and maybe even taking tens or hundreds of generations.
Not abducting people. The notion that aliens would undertake such a trip to simply abduct people and do weird things to them is laughable. If they want samples of sperm, for example, it would be pretty easy to get such samples without kidnapping a yokel and risking exposure. Why would they be so incompetent as to let anyone they abducted stay conscious? Why not simply rob (or better, pay someone else to rob) a sperm bank and have an almost unlimited choice?

Edited by Bikerman, 15 December 2010 - 02:24 AM.