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On 2003-03-14 15:27, JS Princeton wrote:
Hank, get your head out of the sand. It's very clear what my point is:
ME: The government hasn't divulged any information about knowing that any alien lifeform or certainly an alien intelligence has had contact with Earth
YOU: That may be due to the fact that they want to maintain a technological edge.
ME: They could divulge the information on the existence and maintain the edge.
YOU: No they couldn't.
ME: Explain.
YOU: Reread my paragraph.
That's the problem. Explain how presenting evidence for the existence of an alien spacecraft in New Mexico or Nevada would compromise any "reverse-engineering" efforts. You're making up theories without evidence and it's getting tiring.
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I thought you were asking about the SETI part of the paragraph, the way your question was laid out.
Regarding a recovered spacecraft or any sort of hard evidence, any efforts to reverse engineer or otherwise acquire any advantageous information, would be orchestrated by the military... in secret. When in history have we ever divulged information on any potential military vehicle we were developing? Only after the military has completed its work, or deemed the evidence to not have any military value, would anything be released to the public. There is no precedent for this to make us think otherwise.
We have no hard evidence that we know of. It's a good bet that if any hard evidence existed, in terms of actual technology, we wouldn't know about it anyway. Therefore, we cannot simply conclude that it does not exist, in the face of so many credible reports. That's like the old saying, "if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a noise?".
Nobody should go around and say "UFO's are definitely extra-terrestrial" because we do not know that either. But we do know that there have been many mysterious phenomena that has witnessed by credible, knowledgeable people, recorded on audio, video, and radar, and these phenomena in some cases have left behind residual evidence in the form of markings and radiation. We have never been able to explain them in a believeable way. When coupled with the belief that there can be highly intelligent life forms out in the universe, and that those 'aliens' may be far more developed technologically than we are, an extra-terrestrial spacecraft as the cause of some of these reports is a legitimate possibility.
To deny this possibility is to say that humans are the pinnacle of life, and nobody anywhere can be more advanced than us. Yes, there are questions about the necessary distances to be travelled, and the technology required, but those questions don't invalidate UFO research. We simply have not advanced to that point to develop or understand our limitations. If we were to ask someone in the past if travel to the moon was possible, the reaction would be considered the equivalent to the UFO reaction today.
So, JS, I view your stance on the subject in the same way you probably view mine.