I personally am caught 50/50 on wether the aliens want us to know about their existence. They are so sneaky and almost impossible to find
(obviously).
Yes, it's time for everybody to think carefully before reflexively getting mad at supposed actions and attitudes supposedly taken by governments.
If there are ETs coming to Earth on their own power, then they undoubtably have the capability to let everybody on the planet be aware of their
existence if they so desired.
Logical conclusion
Assuming there are actually ETs visiting Earth:
(a) There are no ETs who want to (or are able to) make themselves known to us generally. 100% certainty.
There are unknown consequent possibilities.
(b1) ETs are not making any particular special attempt to cover up their activities, the "low observability" is only a side-effect of their desired
activities, but their intentions are unknown.
(b2) ETs are trying to make an attempt to cover up their activities, but are not coordinating with governments.
(b3) ETs are trying to make an attempt to cover up their activities, and have pressured the governments to maintain this coverup, possibly because
their activities are malevolent.
Another possibility.
(c1) There are no ETs coming to Earth. All observations of apparent anomalies are mistakes, natural phenomena or secret government projects.
Under hypothetical scenarios (b1), (b2), (b3) or (c1), when would the governments be motivated to "disclose" --- if they have anything to
disclose?
I see none. If governments have no knowledge of ET's intentions or capability to discern them or defend against them, then any disclosure would harm
people---us---more than would help.
Under any of those scenarios, is the government being "evil" in not disclosing? I don't believe so.
The only clearly "government is evil" scenario is "ETs are nice space brothers who will help us but government is preventing them because they want
to maintain the elite's control." That's what people, immaturely IMHO, tend to believe.
But if it were so, could the governments actually have the capability to stop such ETs? Very likely not. But even if so, couldn't the ETs let us
know that our governments were stopping them and thus we'd pressure our governments to stop? Yes.
Suppose ETs were undesirable and only a few in government knew this for sure. What would make sense as a policy? To me, it seems like the best
strategy would be to cover it up and secretly conduct research to try to gain greater capability (Men In Black scenario). Motivation for government
cover-up? Yes. Is this cover-up a good idea? You betcha.
If there is going to be ET-human conflict, we need a chance of winning.
I would love the Governments of the world to disclose information, but I am just not sure wether they are "allowed" too? And if they did,
what would the aliens do in retaliation? I just think there is more to the story than the Governments just hiding information.
Yes, it is an analysis of why they might be hiding information.
[edit on 1-8-2009 by mbkennel]
[edit on 1-8-2009 by mbkennel]