[Segovia]

I really like Elon Musk’s take on this subject, and I think he probably knows as much about the situation as anyone.... He said if the US military had evidence of aliens landing on earth, they’d be carting it all into Congress and demanding their budgets be tripled to deal with the “alien threat”.

[marktwain]

I really like Elon Musk’s take on this subject, and I think he probably knows as much about the situation as anyone.... He said if the US military had evidence of aliens landing on earth, they’d be carting it all into Congress and demanding their budgets be tripled to deal with the “alien threat”.

Exactly correct.

[RoosterRedux]

He [Musk] said if the US military had evidence of aliens landing on earth, they’d be carting it all into Congress and demanding their budgets be tripled to deal with the “alien threat”.

Here's the problem with that thinking: The military (i.e., the Defense Department) would have to admit that it cannot defend us against what this is. That takes away their power. It doesn't enable them to ask for an increased budget.

I like Musk. He's a brilliant guy. But on this matter he's wrong.

Either he hasn't been informed because the military, knowing he's an honest guy, has withheld information from him OR he's been informed by the military and told to keep his mouth shut if he wants their cooperation with Space X.