If they "Alien" life forms existed do you really think that the MOD would tell us?
NO of course not, it would not be in there interests to do so.
And why not?
Well............
1. Religion would take a nose dive.
2. Mass panic all over, are we truly ready for them?
3. Cult`s would be all over the place claiming that THEY had contact.
4. Most governments would try to grab a monopoly of there arrival.
5. Would we trust them?
6. Knowing man for how he truly is, some asshole some where would start a fight.
7. What would the muslims make of it? I suspect that to them it would be Alah coming down.
8. Personally for me, I would love the Idea if it meant it would be better for us.
9. What would we have to offer them? hmmmm how about cocain, drugs, booz, voilence, disrespect, arragance, greed, starting wars, killing, murder, stealing, rape, misstrust. Not a good start is it. (This is all fact)
10. Why on Earth would they come here apart from to observe us, we must be on the lower scale.
11. What good do we have? hmmmm Music, art, love, science, good deeds (now and then) apathy, (not all of us us are bad)
12. Lets face it, if they, were us, and we traveled to this world and made observations of how we behave and interact with each other, what would we think of us?
So if they do exist and I do think that they do, then its better to for our governments to lie to us, after all its what they are best at the world over.
Telling a pack of lies, we are on a need to know basis and WE DO NOT NEED TO KNOW.
Mike.