watty said:
TCTTS said:
If true, this is the highest classified secret in our government. Leaking documents, photographs, or video of that level would be treason. It would be Snowden on steroids. And attempting to leak such proof without being caught would defeat the entire purpose, seeing as the credibility of the leaker is almost as important as the leak itself. The public would need to KNOW, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the materials came from a legit source. Otherwise, if the proof is, say, a video, it would just be circulated on YouTube or whatever and even if incredibly compelling, wouldn't have the stamp of approval from an official government source needed to help convince the public of its authenticity.
But this assumes that the only people in the entire world that have anything credible to offer just happen to be people in the military who happen to be bound by classified rules or whatever. That's part of the problem here. You mean to tell me that with all of the supposed sightings happening all over the world, none of them are ever happening to civilians who can actually provide something compelling? That's a logical flaw in the big picture of this issue IMO.
I thought we were talking about
proof?
Otherwise, IMO, "compelling" doesn't ultimately move the needle.
I'm genuinely curious, what do you envision a civilian releasing to the public that would
prove the existence of an alien* presence on Earth? Because short of clear, close-up footage of "biologics" themselves - not just bodies, but bodies walking and moving around - along with, say, corroborating physical evidence taken from a craft, I just can't imagine anything a civilian releasing that would undeniably prove the existence of aliens* and lead to disclosure.
Even then there would still be questions without corroborating documentation, a group of credible/trustworthy witnesses backing up the claims, third-party scientific tests, Hollywood computer effects experts analyzing the footage, etc.
Now, if Jake Barber and his Skywatcher team are able to summon a gravity-defying craft and capture it on video, close up, from multiple angles, and corroborate the event/footage with all the other instrumentation, witnesses, and scientists they have at their disposal, I definitely think that would cause an uproar. It would make headline news for sure, on a global level, and back our government into a corner, no doubt.
But even those guys are technically ex-government whistleblowers and not true, independent civilians.
Otherwise, a bonafide government/military leak from undeniably credible/trustworthy sources stating beyond a shadow of a doubt that we have a crash retrieval/reverse engineering program, while simultaneously offering corroborating proof across myriad sources - government documents, military videos of "biologics," military photographs, and some kind of physical proof in the form of scientifically tested evidence from a craft - is about the only scenario I can imagine leading to disclosure.
Short of a mass sighting involving thousands of people or aliens* landing on the White House lawn, of course.
(* I use an asterisk only because I'm starting to believe more and more that, if real, these things have potentially been on Earth longer than even we have.)