civilization advanced enough to visit earth from extra-terrestrial origin

 >> Dale Ledoux is a member of ParaNet Gamma in Louisiana.--------------------------------------------------------   While I have not read th

e material released under FOIA on this

subject, and am therefore not fully informed on it, I am still

skeptical.  I offer the hypothesis that, assuming there is another

civilization advanced enough to visit earth from extra-terrestrial

origin, these beings would also have within their means the ability

to determine the fate of their previous probes, and would also have

the means to propagate the news of their arrival(s) better than has

been done.

   To date, I have seen no evidence that this has been done.  As a

past walker among battlefields, I have found many things that are of

questionable origin, and many unexplained phenomena.  Within the

realm of my limited knowledge, I often find 'predictable' systems

acting in unpredictable fashion, but all this means is that I don't

have all the information.

   Too much of the UFObia smacks of efforts to ascribe near-godhood

to extraterrestrials and to ascribe to government the time-worn idea

that THEY (it's always the mysterious THEY) are trying to keep

something good from us.   I already feel that our country's security

is too lax, and if these boys can't keep a secret about a recently

developed piece of hardware like the F-19, I really don't think they

can keep a secret about assorted and sundry chunks of

extraterrestrial hardware stored in some desert warehouse.

  Of course, these same aliens could also be trying to remain

incognito, in which case they wouldn't want the publicity.  If that

were the case, though, I doubt that they'd be really happy about this

evidence in the hands of terrestrial authorities.  I still contend

that they'd be able to do something about it.

  Then, too, is the question, what sort of technology do you think

the government is hiding if indeed they are hiding something?  Unless

I miss some bets, I think we can detail a fairly consistent research

path to all of today's technology from earlier levels.  I wish

somebody would point to one of the quantum jumps that would possibly

arise as a result of exposure to the detritus of some advanced

civilization's space probe.  It'd certainly be nice, though, if I

could comfort myself with the knowledge that Reagan's SDI is based on

some other technology from Alpha Centauri than the stuff I know

about.  Maybe this IS true.  Aw, shoot, there I go again...