Aliens Are Living Amongst Us

Aliens are Living Amongst Us Today!

Since the mid-20th century, reports of strange-looking aliens living in the United States have been commonplace and scarcely a day goes by when a newspaper headline does not trumpet yet another sighting by reliable witnesses, including military officials, airline pilots and law enforcement officials across the country. In fact, recent surveys indicate that more than half of Americans believe that the United States has been visited by aliens (Minerd 2000:16). Skeptics continue to denounce these countless alien sightings, preferring instead to hide their heads in the sand in hopes that the whole thing is really just some bad practical joke gone astray and will blow over in the future. In this environment, it is little wonder that Americans want and need to know if they are alone in the universe, or if there are really others out there who represent a potential threat or potential salvation for mankind's woes today.

A careful and thoughtful review of the popular literature suggests that there can be no denying that aliens are already here, though. In fact, an informal search on "Google" for "aliens" results in about 40,700,000 matches. Likewise, there are more than 321,000 videos posted on YouTube concerning aliens, many of them involving aliens already living in the United States today, and the numbers continue to increase on a daily basis. Given this enormous level of public interest and growing body of evidence, how can the skeptics continue to deny the presence of these outsiders? Despite these trends, the fact remains that many Americans would prefer to ignore the issue entirely and believe what they believe no matter how convincing the evidence might be to the contrary.

What can be done now to either greet these alien outsiders as welcome guests or to repel their potential invasion? The U.S. government has certainly made every effort to treat the problem as if it did not exist, and allegations of cover-ups are rampant across the country. It is reasonable to suggest that if an alien was brought to the White House and introduced to the president himself, it would not change anything overnight. Lawmakers in Congress have also been reluctant to weigh in on this problem for fear of being regarded as some type of "whacko" by the colleagues, and more importantly, their constituents. After all, just as no policymaker wants to appear soft on the war on drugs or child pornography, it is apparent that no right-thinking Congressman wants to be the first to suggest that potentially dangerous aliens are already living among average Americans today because their jobs are on the line (Cole 2002:953). In addition, many lawmakers fear that revealing the possible presence of aliens living amongst normal American citizens might create a panic of monumental proportions, and no reasonable Congressman wants that to happen either.

Nevertheless, the growing body of evidence to the contrary indicates that the time has come to recognize the truth and take proactive steps to address the situation rather than just twiddle the nation's collective thumbs in hopes that the problem is not real or that it will go away on its own -- because it will not. Eyewitness after eyewitness has confirmed that they have actually seen aliens living in the United States and many of these eyewitnesses have impeccable credentials. It is difficult if not impossible to discount the testimony of government or law enforcement officials who are trained to be reliable and accurate observers and to the extent that the government does so is likely the extent to which aliens will continue to become more fully entrenched in American society in the future.