When you put up a government website and promise to answer any question that gets enough petition signatures, this is the kind of foolishness that can be expected:
The U.S. government has said it has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet or that an extraterrestrial presence has ever contacted any human being.
Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy released a statement on Monday in response to two petitions which called on the White House to 'immediately disclose the government's knowledge of and communications with extraterrestrial beings.'
"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race," Larson said. "In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."
Hasn't the biggest controversy about UFOs and ETs and all that been that the government has supposedly been lying to us and covering it up all along? Isn't "the government has no evidence" exacly the kind of thing someone lying and covering up would say? Nobody in the aliens-among-us crowd has ever believed a single thing the government has said, so they aren't going to believe this, either.
Omigod, it slipped my mind. The asteroid is getting closer and closer! We're all going to die! And the government won't tell us the truth!
If we're all still around tomorrow, I'll explain that I made a slight miscalculation in my estimating-the-trajectory-of-objects-hurtling-through-space math.
