Have you guys seen Meerkat Manor from Animal Planet? I haven't for years because I don't have a cable. A few days ago, I found a book about the show from a local Borders.

The contents, especially photos, gave me a lot of thoughts... The most thought-provoking photo from the book was about a cameraman (or a researcher) resting on the ground and meerkats, being highly sociable creatures, resting on the lap of the guy. Although the staff of the show try not to intervene with the meerkats, they don't try to make themselves completely invisible to the meerkats. The meerkats are aware of the folks. I think that plenty of unused footages contain the interactions between humans and meerkats.

Then I started to compare this with alleged alien encounter.

Even the anthropological research has a certain level of open interactions between the natives and the researchers. Heck, some anthropologists stay with the tribe and even marry a member of the tribe!

When these things came into my mind, I realized that all those extraterrestrial activities on Earth simply can't be of academic interests.

I read a recent post from the MUFON board about alien abduction. Well, the aliens described in the post remind me of my past because both the aliens and who I used to be think in black and white terms. I was really disturbed because I expected that advanced beings should have more flexible and versatile ways of thinking...

I don't know how many different alien species have their interests on Earth. (Don't argue with me, Josh. I believe that Earth is in the middle of some kind of interstellar tension.) It seems that all of them work under some kind of covert operation. We never see an alien broadcasting crew land on Harvard, taking footages of the students and chatting with them.

During the shootings of the show, meerkats became accustomed to humans. Of course, the researchers would collect the blood and dung samples from the animals. But does that mean that humans try their best to be invisible to meerkats?

Here's what I believe. Acting invisibly and covertly only gains suspicions. If those aliens were really wise, they would have themselves known to some people (not some schizophrenic hobos. I am talking about people with respectable career and social positions.). People like me hate sneaky b*******. The first way to set foot in the native world is to gain their trust.

Some alien contacts suggest that aliens have absolutely no philanthropic purposes. And the hundreds of different alien species reported really disturb me. Just simple tourists? No, they can't be.

You never gain any trust when you act covertly.