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Originally posted by coastalite
Why disclose? There's really no need to unless something big is on the horizon IMO, otherwise we don't NEED to "officially" know.
The masses already suspect that aliens exist and our governments aren't coming clean about the subject. The circumstantial evidence is all around us. From the Roswell crash to tens of thousands of UFO sightings around the world, thousands of alien abduction reports, from Stonehenge, to the Pyramids, to Easter Island to the Nazca Lines to Machu Picchu to anomalies on the moon and mars, to well the list goes on and on and on... Many of these things our scientists cannot explain, so you have to keep an open mind as anything is possible. Don't forget that it wasn't that long ago when people thought the earth was flat.
I do find it funny how eyewitness testimony is enough for proof beyond a shadow of doubt to lock someone up in jail but eyewitness testimony is not enough for proof that UFO sightings are real. Credible witnesses (astronauts, pilots, law enforcement, military) have come forward with solid testimony yet we still refuse to believe. No one can say for sure that they exist until they land on the white house lawn and come out of their discs and allow us to examine them to make sure it's not some guy in a monkey suit pretending to be an alien.
Anyway, I believe the important question to ask is WHY? Why would the government want to tell us that aliens exist? What's the point? Unless the aliens want to officially make themselves known, I don't see it happening. The only way I see them officially disclosing themselves to us is if they HAVE TO. For example, if our species was in danger from an impending global catastrophe, they would HAVE TO officially reveal themselves if they wanted to help save us from being wiped out. I can understand a scenario like that.
If disclosure does come, I'd be worried that maybe there is something coming with 2012 after all. You have to ask yourselves, WHY would they disclose? There would have to be a very good reason.
Anyone care to speculate as to WHY disclosure?
Originally posted by OpenYourHead
Disclosure, would only cause chaos in peoples beliefs and question our existence. Unless it was beneficial for some galactic plan or maybe a new age belief system, it probably shouldn't happen.
If the governments know so much about the existence of UFO's and the technologies of them. They have what they want and probably don't care if you know about them or not.
Originally posted by downisreallyup
What IS significant is this: 2009 was the Official UN Year of Astonomy, and there were many events planned all through 2009 surrounding looking into the heavens with telescopes. The Royal Society knew this as well, and yet they did not schedule their conference on alien life in 2009, but waited until just AFTER 2009 so that their conference would not be associated with the Year of Astronomy.
Originally posted by coastalite
Why disclose? There's really no need to unless something big is on the horizon IMO, otherwise we don't NEED to "officially" know...
...Anyone care to speculate as to WHY disclosure?
Originally posted by Imagir
A two-day conference at the Royal Society in London, titled, "The detection of extraterrestrial life and the consequences for science and society."??
Hmmm... Something huge on the horizon...