“If you can believe many of the reports in the UFO literature, a lot of these ETs have no compunctions about interacting with humans, or with revealing themselves”
I don’t believe for one minute that those reports are of genuine ET’s. I believe the answer to that is much closer to home. Let me explain it this way. A society that has mastered intergalactic travel is not going to fly to earth, and crash in the desert.
Even if their GPS is broken?
Let me explain it this way. A society that has mastered intergalactic travel is not going to fly to earth, and crash in the desert.
Good point.
I'm sure you've read the stories about the US gov't capturing alien craft and reverse-engineering them to build their own. Perhaps they did that, and a lot of those early prototypes crashed. Dunno.
On the other hand, who knows what sort of hardware failures might befall a UFO? A lot of people don't believe that those craft are for interstellar travel, but are only for interplanetary and close-earth use anyway. It's entirely possible that something in our atmosphere could interrupt their guidance systems, etc.
There were a lot of reports of crashed saucers in the 40's, but fewer and fewer as time went by. Perhaps our visitors sorted out what was interfering with their guidance systems and fixed it.
Interesting stuff to contemplate.
I would even take it one step further. Perhaps the government knows that aliens exist and disclosure is imminent. This is a threat to the establishment. Now if I’m the government I’m generating fear and loathing of all things alien so when the aliens do show themselves, I’ll have the people so frightened they will run to me and keep me in power while I fight the ‘evil aliens’ /tinfoil off :)