Given that human/anthropomorphic "sovereignty" is threatened by the possible discovery of another, possibly higher, intelligence, is human sovereignty (easier to think of this as just "national bureaucracy"), collectively and without thinking or needing to think, acting in a way that would try to hide that threat?
We have all thought about how the government might be threatened by the idea of UFO's, but this article seems to take it further. Is the government (i.e., sovereignty itself as a concept) behaving irrationally because it senses its days are REALLY numbered?
Correction: In comment #81 above, I used the term “anthropomorphism” when I meant to say “anthropocentrism.”
Thanks for the latest link—I will read it.
There is an interesting debate on a related topic—and I am not sure where I stand on this:
View 1: .Gov (including private contractors) is disorganized and confused at least partially due to compartmentalization. Different pieces of .gov have had evidence (crashed saucers, aliens—alive or dead) but it is so compartmentalized that different agencies cannot share so that the investigation has faltered—and disclosure is needed to get scientists who are not cleared free to study the information in an open environment.
View 2: View 1 is a cover story to protect individuals who have been using the technology for private gain and/or national security reverse engineering—and they have no intention of doing anything except burying the topic beneath a large pile of disinformation—and the current “disclosure” effort is a ruse and the disclosers are being duped. View 2 includes those who claim there has been a “Secret Space Program” that has been advancing a “Secret Civilization” that has no intention of sharing its secrets with any outsiders.
Grant Cameron is among those pushing View #1 and I do not trust the guy for various reasons—his involvement with John Podesta is one of them. However some of the other folks arguing for View #1 seem to have more credibility.