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Originally posted by zeeEVIL1:

On the subject of Aliens and human contact,
Here is how I see it.

If they just arrived in the way the movie shows,
The world governments would be all over it. they would try to control the situation as to not start a public panic.

They would Isolate the aliens in order to avoid any type of other-worldly contamination from affecting humans.

The govenments would also vie for control over the International issue and definitely would be trying to gain control of the alien weaponry and Tech which is what happened in the film and was shown as a primary motivation within the film.

I mean personally if aliens came to earth and didn't want to destroy us or eat us I would think it is great.

But lets look at reality for a second.

IF Aliens landed, There would be a fundamental shift in power planet wide.
Primarily within the religious community's. Once the Aliens were asked who they believed in and they didn't say Christ or Allah or Jehovah or any other accepted diety, It would cause Religion to crumble and weaken to the point that society would rebel.

And that is only the beginning.

If Aliens have already been to this planet, which I believe they have been visiting regularly for centuries, Govenments would try to Isolate public knowledge of it in order to maintain their own fragile hold onto power.

Carl Sagen was a Genius and I have read his books, which still hold up even now, But even he knew the government would try to control information about their existence.