A thread in Editorials about an astronaut saying we are not alone in the universe..

[lildreamer316]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x442014

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Thanks for pointing me to an interesting discussion

that I would have likely missed otherwise.

[Raksha]

2. There are two UFO threads going in General Discussion right now,

and I've posted a few replies on both of them.

Here's a link to the first one: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5503324
It's called "Former Apollo astronaut says UFOs and aliens are real"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5504319
That one is called "On UFOs and Human Motivations."

I lurk on this board quite often but almost never post here. I think it's interesting that there has been such a sudden rash of UFO threads in GD over the past few days, and I'm starting to come up with a kind of half-baked theory about it. That's my main reason for posting here today. I wanted to run my theory by a group of people who are generally sympathetic to the idea of alien visitations, so that you can give me some feedback on it.

[Raksha]

3. So here's my theory about the sudden rash of UFO stories we've been seeing,

both on DU and in the MSM.

I first expressed it this reply on the GD thread, "On UFOs and Human Motivations."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5504319#5505429

I would have included it in my previous reply, but I had a very strange, synchronistic reunion with an old friend on that SAME topic a few minutes later, which is significant in itself. I haven't had any contact with him in about six years. By the time I got back to this board, the editing period was long over so I had to post a new note.

Anyway, here's what I said:

You're not the only one! I'm looking forward to it myself, and I've never even seen a UFO.

Re Ah that will be a wonderful day, in my view... and a triumph of science... but for some in the religion bidness this will be a direct challenge... for others it will not be... I personally cannot wait for this to happen.

Furthermore, I believe it's going to happen very soon, within the next few months or years. And here's why I believe this: There has been a sudden rash of UFO posts on DU over the past few days, reflecting the sudden increase in UFO stories in the media. And I believe this "unexplainable" increase in UFO stories has a rather simple and obvious explanation.

I don't think it's tinfoil-hat in the least at this point to say the government has been suppressing and denying the existence of extraterrestrials and alien visitations for decades. But the ETs ARE an advanced species, after all. They don't take orders from any government, and even the BFEE, with its power of life and death over millions of human beings, has no power over them because of their advanced technology.

So if the ETs have decided (for whatever reason) to reveal themselves in an incontrovertible way, there wouldn't be one damn thing the PTB could do about it. ALL they could do is what they already do so well, and that is to "prepare" the public for the impending revelation through their control of the media--including the Internet.

This is the reason for the sudden increase in both the NUMBER of stories and the generally more POSITIVE TONE of those stories. From what I've seen so far, they are far more positive and less patronizing towards UFOlogists than in the past.