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I for one would welcome our alien overlords. Couldn't be much worse than our current overlords unless of course they wanted to use us as food.
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Greg Eghigian is a professor of history and bioethics at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. He is author of "After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon" (Oxford University Press, June 2024).Appetite for disclosure
"A lot of folks think it's ETs from other planets, and we can probably handle that. We've seen enough movies and TV shows over the years," Knapp said. "But I can foresee some strange possibilities that might be truly upsetting to people's religious beliefs and their fundamental beliefs about how humans evolved," he said.
"We think we can handle the truth," Knapp added. "Yeah, we think that our government knows the truth. I'm not sure either of those are true."
Disclosure day: If ET made contact, how would we handle the news?
"The appetite for disclosure is likely to never be satisfied."
Greg Eghigian is a professor of history and bioethics at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. He is author of "After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon" (Oxford University Press, June 2024).Appetite for disclosure
Eghigian said that, if you look at the history of the UFO phenomenon, all government gestures aimed at disclosing and declassifying UFO-related information have generated two basic responses.
"There have been those who insist that the materials published definitively show there to be nothing out of the ordinary in sightings and reports," said Eghigian. But these folks are invariably balanced out by others who point to what the documents redact, or don't include, and insist that the government is still keeping vital secrets about UFOs, he added.
"The existence of secrecy means even apparent openness can be suspected of disguising more secrecy," Eghigian said. "The appetite for disclosure is likely to never be satisfied."
Can we handle the truth?
"I know that the public says we can handle the truth. I'm not entirely sure that's true, because we don't really know what the truth is," said George Knapp, a veteran newsman and long-time investigator of UFOs who's based in Las Vegas.
Speaking earlier this year to Ron Futrell, host of the popular "Mystery Wire" internet program, Knapp expressed his thoughts on disclosure.
"A lot of folks think it's ETs from other planets, and we can probably handle that. We've seen enough movies and TV shows over the years," Knapp said. "But I can foresee some strange possibilities that might be truly upsetting to people's religious beliefs and their fundamental beliefs about how humans evolved," he said.
"We think we can handle the truth," Knapp added. "Yeah, we think that our government knows the truth. I'm not sure either of those are true."