So I guess that's it. It's official ET doesn't exist.............
There's no evidence of any extraterrestrial life and "no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."
And there you have it, straight from the White House's mouth, so to speak. UFO aficionados, skeptics and believers alike have waited patiently since September to see how the Obama administration would respond to two petitions under the new "We the People" program.
According to the official response written and released Friday evening by Phil Larson at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, while the government is saying it has "no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race," the door is still open to the possibility and search efforts "of life outside our planet."
And those efforts include the ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- or SETI -- which uses ground-based telescopes to try and tune in to signals from another world.
Larson's response also mentions the Kepler spacecraft in Earth's orbit, searching for Earth-like planets, and the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory, a car-size vehicle that will explore the geology of the red planet to look for any of the building blocks of life.
Undoubtedly, the minions who believe that Earth has already been visited by at least one race of extraterrestrials -- citing photographic, film, video tape, radar returns and landing traces as evidence -- will surely be disappointed with the White House's "no evidence" stance.
Steven Bassett, who penned the first alien disclosure petition in September, isn't satisfied with the White House response and has announced on his Paradigm Research Group site his intention of filing another petition.
"The [White House] response was unacceptable. Much feedback is likely. PRG will begin to pre-promote a new petition relevant to the Disclosure process ... and will continue to keep the Disclosure issue front and center within this attempt at participatory democracy by the Obama administration," Bassett wrote.
If someone, like Bassett, isn't happy with the response given by the Obama administration, he or she can turn right around and file a new petition with no restrictions.
"There's no reason someone couldn't submit a second petition," White House spokesman Matt Lehrich told The Huffington Post in an e-mail Monday. "If it crosses the threshold [of 25,000 signatures], it will get a response. Obviously, if the petition is very similar, it may garner a similar response."
Any backlash to the White House ET response will most likely come from people and organizations who will point to the thousands of pages of previously classified government documents about UFOs -- many of which clearly indicate that some UFO encounters with military forces and airline pilots in the past were considered so important that they weren't disclosed to the public.
Of course, anything in the sky that can't be identified is a UFO. Experts, government officials and military personnel have often been unable to explain away sightings. That doesn't prove the existence of ETs, but it convinces many that we are not alone in the universe.
(video at link)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/white-house-says-no-et-evidence_n_1078816.html?ref=weird-news#s307060&title=Lanterns
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See the idea of UFOs attacking and all that will make nations want to unite against those invaders, of course the UFOs won't contain alien races no they'll contain humans and they will be made by humans, to speed up the unification of the world, leading to us being ruled by the Illuminati.
Just my opinion.
This is also true.
However, most ufo sightings are around military bases--most usually associated with secretive tech.
As far as us not having any proof (or at least the white house claims that we have no proof) proves nothing. Even if the President's claim is 100% honest it still proves nothing. Can a native in the wilds of Africa prove the existence of the F22A Raptor? o, of course not because their technology is too primitive to analyze or eve detect it's presence. For centuries the pope believed the world was flat and nobody could prove otherwise thus the world was flat according to facts of the day. We now know better but even though we can look back over the last few hundred years, even the last 50 years, ad see countless former facts that have been replaced by new information discovered through research ad observation. Many of the today's fact will someday be looked upon by those i the future much the same way we look at the flat earth theory. Life on other planets not only does exist but it must exist for in an infinite universe all things must exist.
Pretty much this^
Quote Originally Posted by Darth Beaver View Post
Lack of evidence = proof?
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True statemtnt. I'm not areuging that.
However if there are 'extra-terrestrials' here, they're probably either not in this dimension(our mind; the overmind).
Or
They're of this earth, and they've been here a long time.
There is absolutely zero evidence that any advanced alien civilisation has visited us. I'm inclined to think this is true.
This does not mean that intelligent (or unintelligent) life does not exist.
I never took it that you were taking a stance contrary to my 1st post ITT. It was simply that my 1st post was so rudimentary I thought I should expand upon my meaning and your post seemed to be the perfect venue to accomplish just that.
200 Years away.