Thank you for taking the effort to track down these videos. But I am sorry I can only briefly sample them. Video, for me, is a retrogression. I can assimilate material 5 times faster by reading it. The point being made in this testimony is something I've known since the late 1960s from the books by Maj. Donald Keyhoe, so this is old news.
What I deduce from 60 or so years of reading about this is that there are no "leads." Unless you want to follow the accounts of abductees, but there are serious problems with that. In any case, the existence of any alien technology is an open question, since nothing has materialized. We have no hints. There is no reverse-engineered technology. If you think there is, I would be happy to know what it is. Everything we have is terrestrial in origin.
Since these episodes were known since the 1970s, I don't think the government is "hiding information of interest." Of interest to whom? What is it? I've worked at the security clearance levels that one of the witnesses claimed (and should not have identified them so far as he did), and there is information that is legitimately kept from the general public that is crucial to the functioning of our defense systems. It is not usually breathtaking. What would be the point of hoarding an entirely new technology and not making use of it---or letting the Russians or Chinese make use of it first? (Surely, you don't think any aliens are playing favorites, do you?) Most of the information we have on encounters has been from the military, so I find it peculiar that you should claim they are opposed to such revelations. I have never experienced or know of any experience of citizens being ridiculed for showing such interest. The subject has received extensive motion picture coverage, and even series programs on television. I have never heard the narrators of investigative programs complain of government interference with their investigations.
And, honestly, what has this to do with space exploration? I think a stronger case can be made for a unified defense of the Earth from extraterrestrial threats and provision made for mass civil defense.
You overestimate the public desire to travel in space. "2001" was perhaps the best-produced film portraying space travel as an accomplished feat, and won high esteem---but people still didn't take it as a priority for today. There is no desire. There may be curiosity. There may be visionaries who set aside the problems by concentrating on the glory. Look at Antarctica: it is blessed with air and water and barely tolerable temperatures, and is nowhere as difficult to get to as Mars. Yet nobody wants to colonize Antarctica. We don't know what will happen when the "new" wears off any Martian colony---and the inhabitants descend into claustrophobia and paranoia. I'm all in favor of finding out whether Mars is a place worth being---and let the colonization proceed from those discoveries.
Thank you for taking the effort to track down these videos. But I am sorry I can only briefly sample them. Video, for me, is a retrogression. I can assimilate material 5 times faster by reading it. The point being made in this testimony is something I've known since the late 1960s from the books by Maj. Donald Keyhoe, so this is old news.
What I deduce from 60 or so years of reading about this is that there are no "leads." Unless you want to follow the accounts of abductees, but there are serious problems with that. In any case, the existence of any alien technology is an open question, since nothing has materialized. We have no hints. There is no reverse-engineered technology. If you think there is, I would be happy to know what it is. Everything we have is terrestrial in origin.
Since these episodes were known since the 1970s, I don't think the government is "hiding information of interest." Of interest to whom? What is it? I've worked at the security clearance levels that one of the witnesses claimed (and should not have identified them so far as he did), and there is information that is legitimately kept from the general public that is crucial to the functioning of our defense systems. It is not usually breathtaking. What would be the point of hoarding an entirely new technology and not making use of it---or letting the Russians or Chinese make use of it first? (Surely, you don't think any aliens are playing favorites, do you?) Most of the information we have on encounters has been from the military, so I find it peculiar that you should claim they are opposed to such revelations. I have never experienced or know of any experience of citizens being ridiculed for showing such interest. The subject has received extensive motion picture coverage, and even series programs on television. I have never heard the narrators of investigative programs complain of government interference with their investigations.
And, honestly, what has this to do with space exploration? I think a stronger case can be made for a unified defense of the Earth from extraterrestrial threats and provision made for mass civil defense.
You overestimate the public desire to travel in space. "2001" was perhaps the best-produced film portraying space travel as an accomplished feat, and won high esteem---but people still didn't take it as a priority for today. There is no desire. There may be curiosity. There may be visionaries who set aside the problems by concentrating on the glory. Look at Antarctica: it is blessed with air and water and barely tolerable temperatures, and is nowhere as difficult to get to as Mars. Yet nobody wants to colonize Antarctica. We don't know what will happen when the "new" wears off any Martian colony---and the inhabitants descend into claustrophobia and paranoia. I'm all in favor of finding out whether Mars is a place worth being---and let the colonization proceed from those discoveries.