"Public disclosure will only cause panic"

[Lancer]

SciFi's favorite line, but perhaps there's some truth to it. Public panic may be the government's bugaboo...

Perhaps if we started panicing now they would divulge all as it wouldn't matter anymore?

Anyway, do you think disclosure of aliens visiting earth would cause panic?

[Nubclear]

No.

[Dinner]

Nope. Certainly a media frenzy though.

[Lancer]

Oerdin, are you back in Iraq yet? Have to send you some stuff if so...

[DRoseDARs]

[BUSH JAB]
If the Bush Administration can work the USAmerican people into a panic about Saddam Hussein's remote-control flying monkeys of death, I think we can manage wide-spread panic over this.
[/BUSH JAB]

[St Leo]

Re: "Public disclosure will only cause panic"

Originally posted by Lancer
Anyway, do you think disclosure of aliens visiting earth would cause panic?

Dunno, but I am still waiting for the report Colin Powell promised in 2001 that links Osama bin Laden to the 9/11 attacks.

[Sandman]

Visiting Earth? Yes, definitely.

[Last Conformist]

Depends on what they were doing, I figure. If they started bombing family farms, I figure it would be more likely to cause mass panic than if they just wanted to buy some dresses as Gucci.

[yaroslav]

World has resisted Greek's style of playing in this Eurocup, so it's ready for anything

j/k

[Solver]

If the US chose to reveal the aliens visit earth, it would cause some social unstability in several ways, definitely.

First, you'd get all those hysterical people who'd go like ahhh, they will kill us/use us for their own good, we're all dead, blah blah. There are enough people in whom such hysteria would be easily provoked by public disclosure.
Second, it would be a huge problem for religious people. Christians, for instance, see humans as a unique creation, God's choice, etc. Knowledge of aliens would cause huge problems for many religious people and organizations.

Those two would be the main points. For many people though it would actually be good. I believe that the US now has to disclose its files on aliens. I can understand during the cold war, when the main concern was that USSR would learn anything about aliens or get to any of their technology.

Currently, though, the politics are just cowards. See, disclosure about aliens would be equal to saying "yeah well we've lied to you for 50 years, aliens are here actually". I think that people would trust the government significantly less if it admitted to concealing information about something it keeps saying doesn't exist.

[Tattila the Hun]

Your avatar sorta contradicts what you are saying...

[JohnT]

See, disclosure about aliens would be equal to saying "yeah well we've lied to you for 50 years, aliens are here actually".

Evidence of alien visitation today doesn't make up for lack of evidence about alien visitation 50 years ago.

[Lancer]

"Evidence of alien visitation today doesn't make up for lack of evidence about alien visitation 50 years ago."

Somewhere there's an airforce hanger with the sign, 'Place Evidence of Alien Visitation Here' on the door.

Hey, what about all those sightings? Abductees?

JohnT, did you ever see the videos from Nasa? One was of a bolt of energy shot at a passing UFO which changed direction. The other was when the shuttle released alot of light and lit up numerous ship looking things. The light release was some sort of screw up, don't recall the nature of it.

Proof? No, but hey...

[Winston]

It's funny that widespread "sightings" of UFO's only started in the late 1940's.

What were all the aliens doing before? Were they upstairs with the wife for the past 2,000 years?

I would say that 95% of all sightings are false. And 5% are make-believe.

[chequita guevara]

Winston and I agree on something.