What does the Gov't really know about UFOs and ET's?

[Bit_Happy]

There have been so many UFO encounters/sightings, some from very credible sources, that they become hard to deny.

Is the Government:
A) Hiding info that would clearly tell the public that we have been visited by aliens?
B) Promoting false belief in UFO's by staging events, including (for example) "amazing things" that Air Force pilots have seen and talked about?


Do you think there is any chance that aliens can take human form?


ps. Satoshi was an alien, please do not be afraid.  

[username18333]

A civilization capable of intelligently interacting with another light-years away from its home is likely to have “a very specific set of skills” (Taken). Denial of base self-preservation (e.g., intercultural military conquest) would be one of them.

[Chef Ramsay]

If someone had the balls to drive thru the Area 51 gate and step on it and make a break for the main facilities then perhaps they could get some footage of one of the hangars before you get swooped up and never heard from again. That's if they don't send in a chopper after you and blow your ass up.

[pedrog]

People in Government positions don't know more than everybody else.

Check Fermi paradox for some good hypothesis on why we haven't encountered alien civilizations yet.

[sickhouse]

I think a mix of both. We've been to space, so we've propably made contact with an advanced ET race. However things like Area 51 is propably a military base, nothing else.

[(oYo)]

Stargate SG-1 is not sci-fi, but an actual documentary. reenactments based on true events. 

[Foxpup]

A) Hiding info that would clearly tell the public that we have been visited by aliens?

Impossible. You can't hide something that big, or if you can, it would require far more competence than the government is known for.

B) Promoting false belief in UFO's by staging events, including (for example) "amazing things" that Air Force pilots have seen and talked about?

They already have. Remember the Roswell crash? It's since been revealed that it was a top-secret high-altitude balloon for observing Soviet nuclear tests, but for obvious reasons the government couldn't admit that at the time, so they made up the UFO story as a cover-up (or the media made it up and the government just went along with it, which amounts to the same thing in the end).

[riptide]

Its hard to believe in something without actually seeing it, But many of us do it. God is one example.

God and UFOs are depicted on TV and the movies which creates a powerful believable image.

[username18333]

People in Government positions don't know more than everybody else.

Check Fermi paradox for some good hypothesis on why we haven't encountered alien civilizations yet.

A civilization that could intelligently interact with another such civilization would not view a less capable “civilization” (perhaps, speaking from the perspective of one such civilization) as a peer and would avoid it therefor.

[pedrog]

People in Government positions don't know more than everybody else.

Check Fermi paradox for some good hypothesis on why we haven't encountered alien civilizations yet.

A civilization that could intelligently interact with another such civilization would not view a less capable “civilization” (perhaps, speaking from the perspective of one such civilization) as a peer and would avoid it therefor.

What we know from our own history is that when a more advanced civilization meets a less advanced civilization the last one suffers immensely, I think we can extrapolate this for the cosmic scale.

Don't know how rare Goldilocks planets are, but probably pretty rare, and so desirable, if a civilization with the capability of reaching Earth finds us, we're probably fucked.

[username18333]

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What we know from our own history is that when a more advanced civilization meets a less advanced civilization the last one suffers immensely, I think we can extrapolate this for the cosmic scale.

Don't know how rare Goldilocks planets are, but probably pretty rare, and so desirable, if a civilization with the capability of reaching Earth finds us, we're probably fucked.

(Red colorization mine.)

Why do I mention this? Because I am going to explain to you why I have such an evil name. When I heard the answer, I said to myself, What can the [otherworldly being] mean? and what is the interpretation of this riddle? for I know that I have no wisdom, small or great. What can he mean when he says that I am the wisest of men? And yet he is a[n] [otherworldly being] and cannot lie; that would be against his nature. After a long consideration, I at last thought of a method of trying the question. I reflected that if I could only find a man wiser than myself, then I might go to the [otherworldly being] with a refutation in my hand. I should say to him, "Here is a man who is wiser than I am; but you said that I was the wisest." Accordingly I went to one who had the reputation of wisdom, and observed to him - his name I need not mention; he was a politician whom I selected for examination - and the result was as follows: When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and wiser still by himself; and I went and tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me. So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is - for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows. I neither know nor think that I know. In this latter particular, then, I seem to have slightly the advantage of him. Then I went to another, who had still higher philosophical pretensions, and my conclusion was exactly the same. I made another enemy of him, and of many others besides him.

(Red colorization mine.)

[Agestorzrxx]

There is no UFOs and ET's

[krigger]

Want the truth?
Its simple. There is no UFO and ETs.
GOV is making it from their own secret projects when they leak out by accident.
Sorry for spoiling the illusions.

[michietn94]

There is no UFOs and ET's

agree with this one.

Alien & UFO were created by someone who has high imagination then he decide to make the first movie about it.

It attract much people and entertaining on that time. Until our memory program the shape how UFO's like.
When see something similiar like it, then he convince that he saw the UFO

[u9y42]

What we know from our own history is that when a more advanced civilization meets a less advanced civilization the last one suffers immensely, I think we can extrapolate this for the cosmic scale.

Don't know how rare Goldilocks planets are, but probably pretty rare, and so desirable, if a civilization with the capability of reaching Earth finds us, we're probably fucked.

That could well be the case - if we're visited by "human-like" aliens, we're probably fucked.

That said, just a couple of comments: worlds outside the Goldilocks zone can still have the conditions for life similar to what we know - tidal heating and radioactive decay could help environments keep liquid water outside the usually considered "habitable zone" - Jupiter's moon Europa, for example, might be one such world. So, "Goldilocks planets" are probably not uncommon, though many can still be hostile and uninhabitable for other reasons.

But more importantly, one of the problems with having only the example of life on Earth to start with, is that we don't really know how dissimilar other life might be: they might not share our requirements for habitable worlds; they might not even share most of our motivations and incentives; and ultimately, they might be either so alien, or so far more advanced, that we might not even understand what we're seeing for what it is - who knows, maybe they use the Earth, and similar worlds, as a sort of RPG.

[NUFCrichard]

UFOs do exist and have been mentioned my governments. I don't think they are hiding anything about aliens as I don't think any have ever been here or contacted us.

UFOs are exactly that, unexplained. I guess we will explain them at dome point but people won't believe the explanation.

[RodeoX]

Show me the money? That's what I want to see. Never in history has there been a discovery that shows life elsewhere in the universe. Show me non-DNA life, or a piece of the space ship made from an unknown material. Until you have something like that the evidence for UFOs is the same as for unicorns.

[ajareselde]

There was a ton of ufo cought on tape while cameras were basicaly useless, and now when everyone has atleast 5mpx on their cellphone,
theres no more sightings, gee i wonder why.
Furthermore, it was said that even if there is intelignet life out there , they surely wont come and visit us, because we are what we are..
As far as government is concerned, they cant find a missing plane with gps, what makes you think theyre capable of locating ufo's

[bf4btc]

Around 100 billion stars/suns just in our galaxy!! Between 100 and 500 billion galaxy's in the universe closer to 500 billion!! Please open you're mind that we are not alone the proof is in the math if you had a brain cell or two you could figure that out.

Possible earth like habitable planets in the universe 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 so i guess the chances are we are all alone 
 

[ajareselde]

Around 100 billion stars/suns just in our galaxy!! Between 100 and 500 billion galaxy's in the universe closer to 500 billion!! Please open you're mind that we are not alone the proof is in the math if you had a brain cell or two you could figure that out.

Possible earth like habitable planets in the universe 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 so i guess the chances are we are all alone 
 

Yeah, but please do calculate how long it would take us to reach them !?
Even if we could travel at speed of light , we probably would die before arriving to another civilisation,
the only chance we can have is to build ships that would have eco-system and where few generations would pass, enabling us to explore much further.