Steve Bass is a Ufologist who believes in the scientific approach to the UFO phenomenon. He is an investigator and State Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network, and a Fellow of the Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomenon based in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is also a journalist for UFO Digest and American Chronicle. Email Steve at steven.s.bass@gmail.com
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Conspiracy TheoriesWhat Would You Do In The Same Situation?by Steve Bass Field Investigator, Mutual UFO Network
Fellow, Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Copyright © 2008 by Steve Bass. All rights reserved.

Serious UFO investigators and researchers believe that our relationship with the intelligence that controls these unidentified crafts is adversarial at best. Note that I said the relationship is adversarial, not the aliens themselves. But what does that mean? The government of the United States of America is mandated to protect its citizens and their livelihood. One of the major factors to be considered is the psychological impact its citizens would experience. An often referred to study by the Brookings Institution entitled Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs yields interesting conclusions in the area of citizen reaction to a belligerent advanced entity. Public morale could stagger, religion could be detrimentally affected, and the government's ability to govern its people could be lessened. Some people could lose their belief in a higher being, and could begin to give credence to the completely unsubstantiated theory that human beings were created in a lab experiment by the very entities that crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1947. What might that mean to the collective human ego? That continues to be an unexplored arena of study. Of course, in my opinion, if these alien beings cannot keep their craft from crashing, how can we believe that they created so much beauty? I would much prefer to believe in an omnipotent, omniscient Creator.
You have to remember that this Brookings study was commissioned in the early 1960's, and the American citizen is a much different person now, much more open minded and in ways more knowledgeable, with ready access to many portals of information via the internet.
Do I give the Federal government too much credit? I might. This is the same government that can't rise above partisan politics during an intense economic crisis. This would be a very good reason an MJ-12 type group would be established, to facilitate rapid handling of extraterrestrial incidents without the involvement of partisanship.
So yes, many might enjoy a good conspiracy theory, and some of the theories might even be more than that. A good litmus test might be exploring the reasoning around why something would happen in the first place, and working from there. Don't propagate a theory only on the grounds of its sensationalism quality.
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