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Aug 4, 2020 - 8:58 AM
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Warlok
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Why on Earth would they want to come here of all places?
Also, why would they be so secretive? Why would they need to hide themselves? Any civilisation capable of interstellar travel would be so far beyond us it wouldn't need stealth.
Why would they comply with some kind of political / military conspiracy to suppress knowledge of their existence? Why would the military or government want to suppress this knowledge anyway? Are Earth's governments working with the aliens or against them? Have they already been infiltrated? If so, why still hide?
Who knows what goes on in a conspiracy nut's mind?
Role-play.
Pretend you are the United States. You have rivals in the world - you compete with them in a tight balance of global power. You manage, over the course of decades, to amass some degree of useful knowledge about extraterrestrial devices & craft. If you announce such, role-play some more - play the role of a competing nation. What is your reaction? Are you comfortable with a rival nation whom you do not trust to possess advanced technology or profound knowledge? Knowledge you do not possess? Would you not threaten that nation with what you have, however you could, to share that knowledge? And back to the US, how would you respond to such a demand?
If that seems too abstract, simply consider the history of nuclear weapons. Lets role-play again and pretend you are the United States, but that Joseph Stalin had first developed the Bomb. Would you have not done EVERYTHING in your power to acquire that technology as well? As it actually was, Stalin played it cool, but behind the scenes deployed resources to get the Bomb.
Technologies that potentially include fast space travel, anti-gravity propulsion, advanced alloys, advanced computational tech, new energy sources etc. seems to me to fit the nuclear bill. Easily.
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Aug 4, 2020 - 9:15 AM
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Warlok
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Further on the subject of fighter pilot observations, backed by their onboard top-tech military hardware...
Fighter pilots may not be "experts on aliens", but they ARE experts on flying craft. They have to be. And they are. You train to make evaluations about craft type, nationality, speed, attitude, and realm of service. They do so so that - for example - they do not mistake a civilian airliner for an enemy aircraft.
To put a point upon it, professional fighter pilots in the US military aren't bunyuks from Podunkville who just had Uncle Henry say, "Hey Billie-Bob... wanna hop up into the sky in that rickety crop-duster of yores so you can get a gander at that bizarre radar contact we have flying at varying altitudes and at incredible speeds?"
Point-on-it second part: They know a Hell of a lot more than you, me, or office/lab-bound scientists about threat identification, aircraft identification, and scrambling to intercept threats. They live it. They actually get up there. They rely on their spatial awareness, reflexes, and onboard instrumentation that has been developed over centuries of WARFARE to do their sworn duties. They have to, because people's lives depend on it.
So yes, I am compelled to trust the combination of their in-person observations and onboard state-of-the-art military technology. And I find the assessment otherwise to be quite UNscientific.
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