At least the Brits leave a possibility.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:06 pm

unlike the American gov't that just figures the people are too stupid to handle it

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&u=/afp/20050203/od_afp/sciencebritainmilitary_050203193254&printer=1

British defence ministry won't rule out alien life: report

Thu Feb 3, 2:32 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - Undaunted by the lack of evidence, officials at the British defence ministry are reportedly refusing to rule out the existence of alien life forms visiting Earth.

The Financial Times quoted from a hitherto confidential letter by an official acknowledging the ministry recorded accounts of people claiming to have seen alien life in Britain.

According to the letter, obtained under recent legislation on freedom of information, such reports are collected "solely to establish whether what was seen might have some defence significance."

While admitting that "only a handful of reports in recent years have warranted further investigation and none revealed an evidence of a threat," it went on say the ministry was "totally open-minded" about the hypothesis of alien life.

Two weeks ago an anonymous caller reported seeing "strange lights" above Kent, southeast England, while another claimed to have seen a flying saucer sailing above Stoke, central England.

The defence ministry said such calls were only a fraction of the thousands it has recorded.

mr. e · Post by **mr. e** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:47 pm

Mr. Ransom wrote:I think the finally caught on to the idea that absense of evidence is not evidence of absense.

i think you mean

"absence of proof is not proof of absence."

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:28 am

The Brits, the Russians, heck even the Canadians and Iranians all seem to think UFOs might be real. Why not the Americans?

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:05 am

Because we don't have a way of blowing them up yet and that's all we're really good at? :lol:

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:09 am

So the cannucks have a way to blow them up already that the United States don't?

I mean besides Celine Dion's high notes.

DarKnyht · Post by **DarKnyht** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:13 am

Just letting the aliens talk with a French-Canadian is enough to send them away.

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:41 am

Nice to see you still have a sense of humor, thou you are right on this.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:08 pm

Ron Caliburn wrote:The Brits, the Russians, heck even the Canadians and Iranians all seem to think UFOs might be real. Why not the Americans?

Off the record, I think they do. They are a lot less forthcoming with what they know.

On the other hand, I do not know anything for sure.