Seeing might not lead to believing

I want to believe.

Just like millions of people worldwide, I believe in aliens and life on other planets.

I think we have been, and will continue to be, visited by intergalactic travelers for years. I think the Roswell incident of 1947 and the subsequent cover-up is most likely true.

So you can probably imagine my excitement when two separate stories broke (in the mainstream media mind you) this week about UFO occurrences in Great Britain.
The first centered on an American fighter pilot’s contact with a supposedly massive UFO over the North Sea all the way back in 1957. The guy noted that he was ordered to fire at the object, but before he could, it sped up to enormous speeds and vanished into the black sky.

The other incident occurred near London’s Heathrow Airport in 1991, where a fighter jet pilot encountered a massive UFO darting through his field of vision. It scared him enough to yell, “Look out, look out” to his co-pilot, who acknowledged what the pilot saw. Video footage of this event has also been produced.

Both of these instances are flowing into the public because Britain is in the process of releasing thousands of pages documenting dealings with UFO events from the past 30 years. The 1,500-page batch this week followed the ones released in May, and it looks like it’ll continue to do so for a while.  

This development has watered the palates of those who have been clamoring for government disclosure for years, but it’s not going to be enough. Major disclosure advocates like Stephen Bassett are pushing for a letter-writing campaign that will send letters to the presidential-elect on Nov. 5, in attempt to get the new leader of the free world to finally open up about our UFO encounters.

But as it seems more and more UFO reports are making their way into the mainstream media (like the really weird and great Stephenville, Texas, sighting this past January and NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s reported knowledge of aliens) and more people are open to the idea that UFOs do exist, there has to be a question all of the curious folks like myself need to ask themselves: Are we really prepared for full disclosure?

Let’s think about this. While we all want to believe aliens are real and have been visiting us, what happens if the results of this disclosure don’t live up to our expectations? One example could be a bunch of boring answers to long-simmering questions, but what if it’s much worse than that.

What if it’s revealed that aliens are real, have been capturing citizens for years and are ready to pounce on the human race at any moment? What if they’re actually controlling the world already and to keep us safe, the government had to agree to shut up? What if we’re all actually alien/human hybrids?

The possibilities are endless, and when you really think about it that way, I’m not sure I want to believe.