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Agreed about the “impact” of such a revelation as ET’s mucking about planet earth.

Survey’s were done by a member of the National Institute of Discover Science (http://www.nidsci.org/), and by Roper.

NIDS is the organization chartered by the FAA to receive UFO reports.

The survey’s examined the question on how would people react if ET arrived. They also conducted a religious impact study. (John Alexander, is an interesting guy and reasonable. His wife is a character. Nice lady, heck of a nice person, just a bit off center).

Here is the central web page for the “impact” survey: http://www.nidsci.org/news/roperdayafter.html

Here is the link to the impact on the people survey (pdf) (internet and Roper survey): http://216.128.67.116/pdf/nids_dayaftersurvey.pdf

Survey results (pdf): http://216.128.67.116/pdf/internet_vs_roper.pdf

Anyway, here is the link to the religious survey (pdf): http://www.nidsci.org/articles/alexander/survey_religion.html

Link to the statistical analysis (pdf): http://www.webcom.com/kelleher/articles/alexander/statistical_analysis.html

Link to the response analysis: http://www.webcom.com/kelleher/articles/alexander/response_analysis.html

Here is link to a Roper survey that examines the public and the rate of some sort of “unusual experience.” http://www.nidsci.org/news/roper_surveys.html

If you visit their web site you can see NIDS are at least trying to maintain some degree of honesty and intellectual discipline.

Interesting survey. What is particularly revealing is that while most people seem convinced they'd handle it just fine, a majority also thinks that other people would have a much tougher time. What that suggests is that the assumption that other people would freak out, and that "I'd handle it better than most", is generally flawed.

Nobody has yet even proposed a coherent, logical explanation for why such things have been covered up by so many different governments of widely differing political persuasions for more than half a century. Not one former leader of any country has even come out and admitted "the truth". But I guess it makes life so much more fun and interesting to assume a massive conspiracy that only a select few are clever enough to discern. Bleh.