I don't buy the alien abduction thing. I believe it's possible that intelligent life can be found on other planets but if they ever came to Earth I don't think they'd waste time abducting random people for experiments. Think about the resources neccesary for NASA to just send a sattelite up to space. Imagine what it would take to reach a planet millions of light-years away.

If any intelligent life actually developed technology capable of reaching Earth on several occasions, why would they waste time sneaking around instead of confronting us like the monkeys they'd see us as? We'd look like primitives to them and taking over the planet for them would be the equivalent of knocking over your little brother pillow fort.

I believe advance alien races that have conquered space travel like to come to Earth and stick up stuff up our butt.  Those sick twisted basterds!

I believe you may be on to something Hanso. They're not conducting scientific experiments at all. They're making some kind of twisted porn.

Seriously tho. I myself don't believe alien abductions are happening and I'm starting to lean toward believing that aliens don't exist... at least as we think of them.

 The government is allowing main stream media to slowly integrate the idea of the existence of  aliens into pop culture so we ( the masses) will gradually and safely integrate them into our belief system.

We ( the masses) are not ready for what is "probably" all things known when it comes to the existence of Aliens, ect.

Plus when you control and partition information to the (idiot) public, you maintain power.

Ironically, if this is true (alien abductions, ect) the ones who think they are in power with such knowledge only end up one step below these alien beings on the food chain, and one step above the masses who don't know or don't believe out of fear.

If this movie depicts what is actually happening, there would be a breakdown of social order throughout the world.

Either way, we are in for something that we cannot control. Ever.

We, the readers, don't need our eyes to bleed from being forced to witness improper use of parantheses.

If this is what the language is actually coming to there will be a breakdown of grammatical order throughout the English speaking world.

Either way, we are in for something that we cannot control.  Ever.

It was aliens that made us use bad spelling and improper use of parantheses.  Damn those aliens, Damn their 3 fingers, Damn them all to hell.

Ok, the whole government conspiracy thing just doesn't work no matter how popular the X-Files made it. A handful of guys couldn't keep the Watergate scandal a secret (Read Charles Colson), so I VERY seriously doubt something as big as aliens is being kept under wraps. You can't tell me there wouldn't be ONE guy who would grab some evidence & bring it public. If anything, the government wants us concerned about aliens so we don't pay attention to the trillions of dollars they are sinking this country into debt. Stupid Republicans & Democrats. I hope the aliens wipe them both out. But somehow I don't think that will happen.

I like Charles Fort's take on the subject. Jacques Vallee takes a similar view, but Fort was pretty funny about it. Why would an alien civilzation abduct people secretly when they could make a state visite to the White House? If aliens are visiting us, why isn't there already some type of open commerce or treaty  established? 

The answer is simple if you stop thinking of us as equals to whatever visits in the night. The hunter sneaks up on the lone deer in the woods, he doesn't send a delegation to the herd and ask permission of the lead stag. And we don't have multiple open visitors because earth is like a private reserve. We are the property of something. We are owned.
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QUOTE From Fort's Book of the Dam*ed::
"Why not diplomatic relations established between the United States and  ... (an alien civilization) ... 

The answer that occurs to me is so simple .... Would we, if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relation with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation?

I think we're property.I should say we belong to something:

That once upon a time, this earth was No-man's Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it's owned by something:That something owns this earth -- all others warned off.

Nothing in our own times -- perhaps -- because I am thinking of certain notes I have -- has ever appeared upon this earth, from somewhere else, so openly as Columbus landed upon San Salvador...

But I accept that, in the past, before proprietorship was established, inhabitants of a host of other worlds have -- dropped here, hopped here, wafted, sailed, flown, motored -- walked here, for all I know -- been pulled here, been pushed; have come singly, have come in enormous numbers; have visited occasionally, have visited periodically for hunting, trading, replenishing harems, mining: have been unable to stay here, have established colonies here, have been lost here; far-advanced peoples, or things..."
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It's ironic, HotDogs, that you would accuse aliens of causing bad spelling and improper use of parentheses, which you misspelled by the way, when you capitalized the word "damn" three times in the same sentence for no apparent reason. Maybe you meant to write it as three different sentences? If so, you would use a period instead of a comma. Come to think of it, most people spell Hot Dogs as two words. If aliens are responsible for poor grammar, then you're the poster child for abduction.