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White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions
An anonymous reader writes "The White House has responded to two more We the People petitions. These new inquiries ask the government to acknowledge formally that aliens have visited Earth. The response from Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology is: 'The U.S. government 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. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.'" I'm glad that's cleared up. Now our government can get back to important work like developing caffeinated jerky.
The use of the phrase "no credible information" is going to drive the conspiracy theorists crazy for decades, 'cause aliens are incredible man! We want to see the incredible information!
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This is one place government officials do not discuss, do not acknowledge it exists, etc. Yet there is this immense desire by people wanting to know what's going on at this place. This gives opportunity for creative people to say there are space aliens freeze-dried from the Roswell crash. OK, prove them wrong. You can't, only thing that can be done is debate among different groups. Unless US govt declassify the area, permit tours, photos, etc. but until then Area 51 remains a good place for conspiracies, movie plots, whatever.
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14% of Americans think they've seen a UFO. An additional 20% haven't seen one, but believe they exist.
Somewhere around 10% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
This says something about the United States, although I'm not sure exactly what.
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You want proof there are no ETs on earth?
Look at the defense budget.
Now look at NASAs budget.
NASA's budget is tiny in comparison. Clearly the US sees other countries as much bigger threat than the anal-probers from outta space. Either that or they feel that a little humiliation for the drunk rednecks that spot them is acceptable.
If we had discovered aliens do you really think we'd be slashing science spending and space exploration costs?
Do you really think the US would be the only country to know about them and that all 200+ nations on earth are collaborating together to keep us in the dark.
It is ludicrous. The one way you know that aliens have been found and secretly being kept away from the public is when the government starts putting higher priority on space funding and NASA's budget starts rocketing upwards instead of getting cut further and further each year.
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To sum up TFA:
1. Aliens are almost certainly real. Those who refuse to believe in the likely existence of extraterrestrial life either refuse to acknowledge or cannot comprehend the vastness of space and (especially) the vastness of time.
2. UFOs are absolutely real. There are lots of instances where people legitimately see objects in the sky that they cannot identify/classify.
3. UFOs are absolutely not aliens. Those who believe that aliens have visited earth either refuse to acknowledge or cannot comprehend the vastness of space and (especially) the vastness of time.
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More logically the phrase "no evidence" versus the more commonly expected "no knowledge". So perhaps no recovered alien vessels and no captured aliens versus no knowledge of unknown space vessels, presumably not operated by humans.
Of course one need only look at the reply for marijuana versus say this story http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2008/jul/23/significance_us_govt_cannabinoid which leads you to http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html. So the US Department of Health has a patent on what the US Government in turn denies is of any value.
Then of course who could forget wikileaks and embassy cables, basically the US government lying all over the place, again and again and again.
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Here, go vote on some more important petitions:
Meta-petition
99declaration.org
Snarky petition
E-Parasite
Marijuana petition Part II.
Reverse marijuana petition
YAMP
I like this one. Bet it doesn't last long.
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