Wow. Just want to say, first off, that this site is amazing. Great discussions from (mostly) intelligent people who argue their sides well, without the swearing or one-lined attempts at dissmisal. Great stuff.
OK, I want to chime in on the whole "the government is hiding UFOs and stuff from us" topic, becuase I really enjoy talking about it. (Mainly becuase I like talking!
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Getting one important factoid out of the way: I do believe that UFOs are intelligent beings, be they from a planet in this solar system or another, and that the government does know a ton about them. They tell us little, calling sightings they cannot debunk "Unexplained" without elaborating. It's maddening, I know, because one wonders "why not just tell us what you know?"
Well, to those who aren't up on political and social strategies, here's a quick refresher course...
You are the United States of America. You have the most advanced technology in the world today, and are the most dominant military force in the known history of the world. Despite all this, there are thousands of these round, silver ships that are flying in and out of your airspace, and there isn't a thing you can do about it. Are you going to tell everybody?
Hell no. Telling the American Public is also telling the world. Enemies know now for sure that your defenses are incapable of preventing advances by these silver buggers and now, they suddenly find a reason to salvage the one that crashed in their own back yard. A stretch? Maybe, but if you believe the overwhelming evidence that at least one UFO has crashed in our nation, then why would it be outrageous to believe that they have fallen elsewhere? Not only is it NOT outrageous, it is plausable. Reasonable. Probable!
Of course, that can't be the only reason for not telling the public. As a matter of fact, it isn't. I wish I could name for you the source, but it slips my mind now, as in the 1940's, after the Roswell crash, a high-ranking United States Military offical wrote in an offical document to a NASA offical something to the effect of "Divulsion of the knowledge of an alien race would most likely not be healthy for the public, as history dictates that a people who is sure of itself and it's history has shown an inability to strive once it is confronted with something that changes everything it once thought to be true."
Not an exact quote, but a valid point. Take a look at any indiginous people who the Europeans have conquered: All of them had thought themselves to be alone, and was sure of it's world. Imagine...just imagine...what it would be like to us (Yes, even you believers) if the government told the truth about alien encounters. It would shock the world. Even me, who truly believes that UFOs are real. It would be like when you're about to get into a fight, and you know the dude's gonna hit you, and you know the dude hits hard, but you're still absolutely stunned at just how hard he hit you. Sure, the aliens are advanced, we all know that. Yeah, they can do some pretty amazing things, we've seen that. But if we were to see just HOW amazing and advanced they are, I don't think most of us could handle it. How could we? We couldn't even comprehend it, much in the same way you couldn't teach a dog to build a V8 engine no matter how many classes you brought him to.
And when it comes to our own past, I think the subjects are one in the same. More and more texts are being translated and posted all over the internet that are throwing everything we've been told was true out of whack, and we're finding out we may be a lot older than we thought we were. We're learning that we may have had technology that not only rivaled today's, but in some areas was more advanced than our own! (See: Brain transplant)
And that's not the disturbing part. Neither is the fact that it was lost a long, long time ago, forcing us to start over from scratch.
The disturbing part is that none of this information is new. None of it was discovered yesterday, a year ago, ten years ago! This stuff has been out there, but try and find it in a newspaper. You can't. When an exciting discovery is made, try and find it on your local news. You can't. About a year ago, a local FOX network cameraman filmed a UFO flying over our airport in Albany, NY. It was talked about for about 10 seconds that night, then another 5 the next. They said they sent it to the military for examination. Have we heard a word about it? No.
Things like this are supressed because while mainstream American isn't overly religious, much of our government is, and the power the religious factions yeild is still tremendous. (See: ruling that Creationism must be taught in Cobb County, Georgia public schools...despite the fact that it specifically says you can not in the Constitution) If we were to find out that humanity was actually millions of years old, not 6,000 or so as stated in the bible, what would that do to Christianity and Judaism? They're doing their best to debunk the fact that absoutely no scientific evidence supports creation or their next-in-command, The Flood. They manage to get away with having Creationism (Under the guise of "Intelligent Design") taught in an entire county of public schools, arguing that "You should teach both sides of the argument" when in reality, there is no argument. Not in science. Imagine if President Bush came out today (Another religious man) and said that we had the ability to fly 1.5 billion years ago? DOn't you think that would knock all major organized religion right off it's perch? Of course it would!
In summary:
UFOs are real, and they own the skies. The government fears that they'll be the White Man to our Native American, but they dont' want us to know that.
We're old men, not little brats. There are people in our government who know this, but won't tell because President Bush already named Jeus our official Savior.
Church and State? Why not?
That's all I got. Thanks for reading!
JD
