[onishadowolf]

To keep a acceptable facade in place, while you do your research without persecution. And/or stupid modern day witch trial.

Heh, couldnt agree more

From the SETI website:

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Internet Rumor of Inbound 2012 Spaceships Untrue
NO Spaceships Headed for Earth

Has the SETI Institute discovered three objects en route to our world?  Alien spacecraft that will arrive in 2012?

If you believe a widespread story now being circulated on the internet, and published by the ironically named “Pravda”, you might think so.  But it’s all nonsense – it’s a rumor, a hoax, and a fabrication that uncritical web sites have reprinted without checking.

A few aspects of the story that are obviously suspect:

1. The objects, now described as a few hundred kilometers in size, and “beyond the orbit of Pluto”, were apparently discovered by SETI using the HAARP radio array.  To begin with, the HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) instrument is located in Alaska.  The position of the three “incoming” objects is given as -90 degrees declination – or the south celestial pole.  Anyone versed in even elementary geometry can recognize that you can’t see this part of the sky from Alaska!  In addition, and of clear import, neither the SETI Institute nor any other SETI project makes use of HAARP.

2. In the original version of this article http://www.examiner.com/ufo-in-canada/3-very-large-objects-space-flying-to-earth, purported SETI astrophysicist Craig Kasnov is quoted as saying that the three objects are in-bound.  No one named Craig Kasnov has ever worked at the SETI Institute.  There is a media and conservation professional by name of Craig Kasnoff, who – with David Gedye – came up with the idea of the SETI@home screen saver many years ago.  But he has explicitly noted that he has nothing to do with this story, and in fact the article itself points out that it is referencing “Kasnov” not “Kasnoff.”  So the story rests on the testimony of a fictional character.

3. If the SETI Institute had, indeed, found three clearly artificial objects headed for Earth (or just about anywhere else), that news would be found here on its web site.  It would also be in the mainstream media.  It’s not.

The putative arrival in 2012 of objects from another world is no more believable than the Mayan calendar claim that the world will end in that same year, internet stories notwithstanding!

Dr. Seth Shostak
Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute

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Or are they just covering it up?   

Or are they just covering it up?   

Id always go with a good ol cover up, but thats just me

I truly believe life is out there but not 3 spaceships, if there was, they are real advanced and they would be here shortly

[Muerte]

  One wonders.  2012 is the ends of life as we know it.  The arrival of Intergalactic visitors would be an end to what we know and believe would it not.  Both Scientifically and Religiously.  One wonders.  One also has patients to wait until the time arrives to see what will happen.

@Markus: these are not the first reports of huge spaceships on their way to Earth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33uvhjp7U5Y


@Muerte: we will see, not too long to wait is there? 

[Muerte]

  No there is not and I for one strongly hope that it is a simple change in our percetion of life as opposed to some unforseen catastrophy.  I retire (at age 38) in 2016.  I very much hope to enjoy that and the rest of my very long retirement.

Considering your dexterity and intelligence, there's a good chance you will. Third factor is pure luck. 

Aliens!

 

where?

[Earth_Wyrm]

Don't worry, guys. As long as Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are still alive, everything'll be fine.

Oh, and let's not forget the former abductee who rams his fighter jet into the alien mothership. 

Seriously, though, if these guys are the Original Creators of our species, doesn't it creep you out to think what they might've created us for?

Probably for jobs we usually hire people from third world countries for 

[ravinclaw]

Or for entertainment. Maybe they like to watch us blow s**t up.

@Ravin "My human killed your human's mom!" "Well, my human blew up your city." It's like LEGOs.