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I guess that their only reason to look for organic life on other planets is to extract fossil resources (oil) then?
US.gov: We aren't hiding any space aliens
The American government is not in contact with aliens and is not aware of any living on Earth, the White House revealed today in response to 12,000 American citizens who told the government "they could handle the truth". The official statement from Phil Larson, a research assistant from the White House's Office of Science and …
The US government is a bloody liar! I have tons of documents, videos and pictures proving there's a cover-up by the US government.
No surprise there, then
"The American government is [...] not aware of living on Earth, the White House revealed today."
It took a Freedom of Information request to reveal this?
No surprise here, then, either .... which does deliver a fabulous stealth facility and ability
""The American government is [...] not aware of living on Earth, the White House revealed today."
It took a Freedom of Information request to reveal this?" ... Jon Green Posted Monday 7th November 2011 12:54 GMT
Greetings, Jon Green and El Reg ARGonauts,
Would you be surprised if Europe were equally clueless, even as they scurry and scamper like lemmings and headless chickens to contain the unfolding and quite alien conflicts which are exposing the corrupt workings and fabrications of dodgy markets and crooked criminal enterprises posing as free capitalist states and fully functioning economies, whenever quite obviously they are neither and never have been? Or would you fully expect them to be so ignorant, as it is par for the course as you consider the present?
And that is all that I would wish to say, for now, but would leave you with the following to ponder....http://www.ur2die4.com/?p=927
Pointless.
"We’d as well be 10 minutes back in time, for all the chance you’ll change your mind."
Load of cods
Aliens coming to earth my arse! Load of old tosh made up by people with too much imagination and no creative outlets.
Why bother ragging the government? If you want see aliens, simply head out to the back of beyond for a few weeks, get dressed up as a down-at-heel hick and wait for the saucers to land! Every story, the aliens come down, gang-probe some "hillbilly" and drop them off by the side of the road afterward.
Sure I appreciate the stories from the abductees, but it wasn't so long ago that the same sort of people, prior to space aliens being in the public conscience, would claim Succubii would come into their rooms at night. They'd "freeze" people in their beds, wide awake and do nasty things to them.
As George Carlin once said, "50% of Americans believe in angels. What the hell? Are you, fucking stupid or something? A good dose of some illegal drugs will get you some fucking angels my friends!"
So....
"the odds of us making contact with any of them – especially any intelligent ones – are extremely small"
He is therefore not ruling out making contact with the unintelligent ones. These will be the ones that watch the videocasts of "The only way is Betelgeuse 5", "Rigel 4 has got talent", "Celebrity Big Polymorphic Natal Being" etc.
Well, that's just what they would say, innit? Their denial just proves that they are hiding the information.
-dZ.
We need to go deeper
Clearly, the government has already been taken over by aliens and they're just denying their own existence!
I can't say I blame them. If they came out, Fox News would just complain about them damn aliens coming down here and taking jobs from good, hard-working humans.
No; if they had the information, they would tell everyone. Just like those nasty WMDs ready to go in 45 minutes.
Aliens already...
... found us.
But they were looking for intelligent life forms and went away.
Memory wiped
The government got them with that zippy pen memory eraser thing. What was that flash ?
Through the SETI project?
I thought that nearly went titsup due to lack of funding. Given their miniscule budget, Uncle Sam could easily have thrown them a few crusts and kept them running for years without impacting its own budget.
Then...
...who has been probing me every night for the last 3 weeks?
I'd best speak to the new lodger I've got in the bungalow.
MAJIC eyes only
LOl, this story is hilarious and may offer reassurance and comfort to those with IQS of 70. The US government isn't even in control of the information,so why bother to contact them in the first place? Any sensitive information will be part of compartmentalized special access programs. The reason for this: to keep secrets and allow for plausible deniability amongst those in government, as well as maintaining domestic tranquility. Most folks think that secret projects end with black projects entitled TOP SECRET, but there are many compartmentalised grey projects beneath that,labelled CRYPTO, MAJIC, etc.
They would say that wouldn't they?
Though if you looked at most of the wannabe politicians over there you'd swear that they weren't on this planet
Pass the bacofoil, my heads getting chilly
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, they said..."
"Million to one chances happen nine times in ten..."
I for one welcome our alien lizard overlords...
<blockquote>opinion polls stating that more than 50 per cent of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80 per cent believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon.</blockquote>
Presumably that's 80% of 50%, rather than an additional 30% believing the government is covering up an alien presence in which they themselves do not believe?
Actually,
those 30% could be like me, and think the US DoD uses aliens as a cover for military test flights and covert operations.
Still a coverup relating to aliens, just not one that requires the aliens exist.
Well...
...what about the Roswell tapes then which show an alien autopsy. Or the hundreds of UFO photos and people claiming to have been abducted?
@AC
Not sure if you are trolling, but here goes anyway...
The Roswell tapes show no such thing.
The hundreds of UFO photos show UFOs. ie Unidentified Flying Objects. Not aliens. Not spaceships.
The people claiming to have been abducted are wrong. The human mind is an amazing thing.
There you go. Sorted it all out for you.
"and opinion polls stating that more than 50 per cent of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence"
That'll be God then!
>That'll be God then!
Is that supposed to make me feel better? It really doesn't, you know.
God?
If he existed he would have created me for some balance.
But I don't exist and neither does he.
Overestimating competence
I just don't see how anyone can believe that the governent can sucessfully cover-up and keep secret somethign that doesn't matter at all when it is clear that they didn't manage to keep secret much stuff that actually mattered.
Obviously silly
If they were aliens here they'd be trying to take over. They'd do something obvious like competing to stand as Republican candidate for US President.
Oh wait ...
haha
"50% of Americans believe in angels. What the hell? Are you, fucking stupid or something? A good dose of some illegal drugs will get you some fucking angels my friends!"
PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!
errr, I hope that they know that if there is some sort of an alien coverup, an _elected_ government wouldn't know about it! And for that matter any position that is linked to this _elected_ government wouldn't know about it.
the people who would know are the people who are _not_ elected, these people will have static jobs that the 'people' won't be able to interfere with. In order to maintain total deniability (?), those who face the people and are questioned by the public, must never know the truth themselves.
simple, right?
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe...
...is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Calvin -- aka Bill Watterson.
If one believes that there is balance in the universe then there must be intelligent life somewhere else if only to make up for us ;)
@Risky
Too right.
Hell, we have entire continents run by people who, on the evidence of current economics, don't even understand that credit card bills need to be paid. This isn't just the elected ones who rotate chairs every so often - it's the ones in a job for life who are supposed to be the country's experts. And as the Queen said, "why did none of you see it coming?" And yet they're supposed to be managing a worldwide conspiracy that's kept this all hushed up for decades?
Plus this conspiracy is supposed to involve the media too. You know, the papers who are in cutthroat competition with each other, who'd sell their children to get one over on the others, and who are quite happy to ignore government "do not print this story" commands if they think it'll get them more sales. And all the TV stations, including places like Al Jazeera who'd be quite happy for the American establishment to collapse.
Sheesh.
Waste of time
I think it's clear reading some of the comments here that if you're in the mindset that believes in this sort of thing, you're not in the mindset to accept any statement from the government about it.
But the government knows this. So why bother making a statement? It's obviously a conspiracy at the highest level - they're secretly keeping people in the dark about the fact aliens have never landed here by making statements they know won't be believed. Genius!
"The American government is not in contact with aliens and is not aware of any living on Earth" SAID THE ALIEN OVERLORD PARASITE LIVING IN A HUMAN HOST.
Where is the green colored text IN BOLD when you need it?
Waste of time
Surely they realize that the tin hat brigade is going to write this off as another is a long string of denials of the truth. I mean it's not like they don't all already know that Barack Obama was born on Alpha Centauri to lizardman parents.
Not...
Obama isn't an alien. He was grown in a vat by the CIA. GH Bush started the program. GW Bush was a first, not very good, effort.
Brave of the spokesman to acknowledge likelihood though
Not much news in this story, but significant to me that he acked that given the size of the universe it was likely there was life out there. I look forward to "US GOVT SAYS ALIENS LIKELY" being broadcast tonight on Fox News and the various religious talking heads being called on to explain how they are going to cope with the fact that being made in God's image might actually mean God is small and green.
I know, not gonna happen.
colour me a cynic
Shirley there would be better things to petition the government for in the good ol' US of A...
..of course none would get the blog-(or as so eloquently put on TED recently "crowd-sourced-news" )-o'sphere distracted enough to buy a couple of days of hassle free politics.
One nation under [...]
Ask Mr President to confirm the existence of God. Go on i dare you.
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