quillius, on 17 September 2012 - 04:12 PM, said:
I guess another way of possibly looking at this would be that parents did often lie, at the time of doing so they 'believed' it was for our own good. 10 years on with greater wisdom do they think in the same way? additionally as the kids grow up and become parents themselves do they choose not to tell the same lie as they think the opposite to that of the parents (with regards to the lie and its consequences/effects on child)...?
I don't know. I also don't know if the govt thinks it was for the best to lie for the country's good or for their own good.
I also, it has to be said, think that Eisenhower never met with aliens... Just to get that out there and stated in no uncertain terms.
But I do suspect that the govt knows more about UFO's sightings than it has released. I mean, let's be logical here - probably a goodly percentage of UFO's are military vehicles of some sort. And that means that the govt knows exactly what it was that was unidentified and flying that people have reported in those instances. And they are going to say that they don't have any idea in order to protect what they see as the country's best interests.
Therefore one does have to take what the govt says on that topic with a grain of salt, is all I am saying.