It’s too bad we don’t really know if we’re being visited by UFOs and if some people are being abducted.
On the other hand, if you were one of the powers that be, would you tell the public or keep a lid on the news that the world is being visited by UFOs and that they are abducting people at will? Keeping quiet may be the best thing to do.
Seriously, I’m not totally convinced that there are aliens ('cept for the illegal Mexican kind!) Call me naive but if the US govt knew about UFOs existing, wouldn’t thousands of people have to guard this secret with their lives and be careful to not leak it out? Over time, someone would have to speak up.
I’ve done quite a bit of reading on the subject and while I feel that most of the best-publicized UFO or abduction cases are hoaxes or misidentifications of other phenomena, I can accept that at least some UFO sightings may be what they purport to be: observations of some sort of air vehicle of a type unkown. OTOH, one of the things that jumps out is that generalized sightings of UFOs and reports of abductions by ‘aliens’ are not necessarily related events, and I have not read any convincing information that leads me to believe that the abduction phenomenon is a physical reality (and I point specifically to Dr. John Mack’s sloppy, anecdotal work here).
Furthermore, I am a certain as I possibly can be that the United States has no federally-funded programs that formally investigate, catalog or otherwise deal with reports of these phenomena by the public, and has not any such programs since at least the late '60s. Thus the government has no meaningful control over this information, or even official knowledge of it, other than haphazardly filed reports by the public who have contacted one government agency or another basically because they had no idea what to do or who to contact about this kind of information.
Otherwise, limiting myself strictly to this question:
If one were a high political official and one knew for certain that such was taking place, and if one could do nothing whatosever about it, one might very well prefer to ignore it. The evidence, however, that such a policy is in place is pretty thin on the ground, and I beleive there would be many others without a political consideration who would likely be in on the secret and would not hesitate to blab about it. Oh yeah, and I’d do the same.
Before alien abductions, people used to be abducted by elves or pixies; instead of being taken into a flying saucer, they were taken to a magical tree, or a cave of wonders etc - I don’t think this is so much a case of any real phenomenon misdescribed by people because of their level of technology/knowledge, but more likely some sort of bizarre phychological upset that happens to map itself in the context of what the sufferer already knows about.
However, any conspiracy nut will tell you people have spoken out, and they were silenced - they wouldn’t leave a gaping loophole like that.
If they would just warm the anal proves in a pan of 37 [sup]o[/sup]C water, I wouldn’t be so chapped. Once I got used to the ashen, expressionless faces, and those giant, black, unfathomable eyes, being sucked out of my car whilst driving on an AZ interstate, in the wee hours of the morning, nodding in a somnolent torpor, wasn’t quite so bad. But I’ll be damned if I can get used to a big cold metal digit being shoved up my ass. Even nurse Ratchett uses a little KY on occassion, for crying out loud, and I know she hates my guts. The Greys could go a long way, I think, toward minimizing any pandemic of anxiety if they would take a few simple ameliorative precautions and exert a modicum of effort to improve the overall experience of exploratory rectal invasion. They’ve perfected the antigravity hyperdrive, for heaven’s sake; why not a little luxury once in a while.
Here’s the thing. Suppose the earth is being visited by alien spacecraft. We don’t know what they want, we don’t know how they got here, we don’t know what values these aliens might have…they might be athiests, or communists, or something.
Don’t you think the existance of aliens would be the best possible propaganda tool for the military-industrial complex? And much better than Russkis or Islamacists, because they aliens don’t seem to be doing much of anything. The military-industrial complex could get tons of money for secret research programs, advanced weapons, gold-plated aerospace widgets, manned missions beyond the moon, you name it.
Come on. Think how much NASA’s budget would increase if they could prove there were aliens visiting the earth. No NASA director could resist the increase in power that would result from revealing the existance of aliens. Remember how they trumpeted that martian meteorite with the odd microscopic structure? Do you think they were doing that for fun? No, they were trying to drum up public support for an increase in NASA’s budget.
Simple equation. Aliens==tons of money for NASA. Sweet, sweet taxpayer money. None of this penny-pinching budget cutting crap, they’d be rolling in cash, they’d be movers and shakers and high-rollers again.
And if the aliens really are abducting people at random, and acting like the UFO people think they do…then the aliens are fucking assholes. Go AIR FORCE! Lets kick some teeny withered grey behind. If those alien morons can develop interstellar travel when their idea of scientific investigation is to jam a probe up some farmer’s rectum, think about what we could do with a little better scientific method. I kill them filthy.
A human abducted by aliens would be subjected to anal probes and probably return knowing much more than other humans.
He would return to live a shadowy existence – no one would know his prior history or ever see his face, but he would likely try to inform others of all his knowledge, fighting ignorance since 1973.
