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Monday, November 7, 2011 ~ Have your say...

Breaking News: White House Formally Acknowledges: "Searching for ET, but no aliens yet".

Ok, it's not really breaking news.  It's kinda mundane.  But, it's interesting nonetheless.  


The White House has formally acknowledged that the human race is not engaging extraterrestrials and is not withholding any information from said aliens.  This was in response to two petitions on the White House's "We The People" site, which requires a response from the government if 25,000 signatures are signed.  The first petition stated the following:


We petition the obama administration to "formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure."


"We, the undersigned, strongly urge the President of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon."
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Hundreds of military and government agency witnesses have come forward with testimony confirming this extraterrestrial presence. Opinion polls now indicate more than 50% of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon. The people have a right to know. The people can handle the truth.


The second petition reads:


We petition the obama administration to "Immediately disclose the government's knowledge of and communications with extraterrestrial beings"


This Petition calls for the President to disclose to the American people the long withheld knowledge of government interactions with extraterrestrial beings and call for open Congressional hearings to allow the people to become aware of this subject through those whose voices have been silenced by unconstitutional secrecy oaths.


The Response...


Phil Larson, who works on space policy and communications at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, replied with this official statement:


Searching for ET, But No Evidence Yet


By Phil Larson


"Thank you for signing the petition asking the Obama Administration to acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.


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.


However, that doesn't mean the subject of life outside our planet isn't being discussed or explored. In fact, there are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth. Here are a few examples:


SETI—the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence—was originally stood up with help from NASA, but has since been moved to other sources of private funding. SETI's main purpose is to act as a giant ear on behalf of the human race, pointing an array of ground-based telescopes towards space to listen for any signal from another world.


Kepler is a NASA spacecraft in orbit that's main goal is to search for Earth-like planets. Such a planet would be located in the "Goldilocks" zone of a distant solar system—not too hot and not too cold—and could potentially be habitable by life as we know it. The Kepler mission is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover Earth-sized, rocky planets in or near the habitable zone of the star (sun) they orbit.


The Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, is an automobile-sized rover that NASA is launching soon. The rover's onboard laboratory will study rocks, soils, and other geology in an effort to detect the chemical building blocks of life (e.g., forms of carbon) on Mars and will assess what the Martian environment was like in the past to see if it could have harbored life.


A last point: Many scientists and mathematicians have looked with a statistical mindset at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life.


Many have also noted, however, that the odds of us making contact with any of them—especially any intelligent ones—are extremely small, given the distances involved.


But that's all statistics and speculation. The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth."


The official petitions can be found here and here:


Do you think this case is settled?  Or is the government lying to us again....???

Friday, April 22, 2011 ~ Have your say...

The Russian Dead Alien Video

On April 20th, 2011, The Daily Mail reported, "Body of 'dead alien' is found in frozen wastes of Siberia after claims of UFO hurtling to Earth... but is it an elaborate hoax?"

Igor Molovic, one of the two teens who discovered the alien, was quoted as saying, 'We couldn't believe it when we saw it. And what was spooky is that there was no sign of the spaceship. Perhaps that was taken away and the body overlooked."  They took a video of their discovery, and promptly uploaded it to YouTube, where it went viral in a few days, gathering nearly a million plays in only a few days.

Believers in UFOs suggest the body could have been left behind by extraterrestrial visitors after an accident, or missed by Russian military alien experts clearing up after a crash. The area is a known UFO hotspot with dozens of sightings reported every year.  In fact, the discovery follows reports of a UFO in a nearby region about a month ago.

And without further adieu, here is the video:


UFOlogists were quick to comment, suggesting this video was more evidence for proof-positive that Earth is being visited by aliens:

"There is a constant drip drip of info at the moment... It feels a matter of time before an anouncement. First the US army's senior figures talking about UFO's shutting the missle silo's down on numerous occaision... the released FBI files regarding crashed saucers... The Welsh Roswell incident being revisited... Frankly, I have an open mind (as you can tell!), for me though, the multi angle footage of the UFO in Isreal is all I need. You cannot fake that surely. If the Aliens can swing by Manchester and pick me up, that would be great..."
And another...
"It's so lame how people always get thrilled by having another excuse to shout "Fake! fake!" every time something weird shows up. Unless proven otherwise, this is in fact plausible."
So... was it a hoax?

Yup.  The Siberian alien was created by two Russian teens, Timur Hilall and Kirill Vlasov, who confessed to the hoax after police in Irkutsk, Siberia, investigated. The police also found the “alien” figure hidden in one of the teen’s bedrooms.  To quote one of the officers, 'It was lying under his bed and an examination of it revealed it had been made of bread crumbs which were covered in chicken skin.'

As expected, conspiracy theorists have already started accusing the government of a cover up.   And there were more comments after the hoax was revealed:
  
"We know what we saw. Powerful people in the military just don't want us to see this."
"Is anybody looking at the picture of the alien model on this web page? It is not the same as the alien filmed in the snow. For one, the model is blue. The alien has skin and is orange. Is anybody paying attention? This model was made after the fact, to try and discredit the actual alien body. The model does not resemble the actual alien body. Is anyone out there not an idiot?"
Really?  Even when presented with proof that the two teens hoaxed the whole thing, people still cling to the beliefs, invoking the fallacious "conspiracy theory" argument.  Why not invoke Occam's Razor once more:  is it more likely that this was a hoax, or that an alien being was discovered by a couple of teenage boys?

Sigh.  



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