Brookings study December 1960: Nasa's guiding light ;)

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Was this document used to define Nasa's long term policy concerning the divulgation of any extra-terrestrial reality ?

Presented during the 82nd congress, April 1961​

www.nicap.org/papers/brookings.pdf

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Though intelligent or semi-intelligent life conceivably exists elsewhere in our solar system, if intelligent extraterrestrial life is discovered in the next twenty years, it will very probably be by radio telescope from other solar systems. ​

Evidences of its existence might also be found in artifacts left on the moon or other planets. ​

The consequences for attitudes and values are unpredictable, but would vary profoundly in different cultures and between groups within complex societies; a crucial factor would be the nature of the communication between us and the other beings. ​

Whether or not earth would be inspired to an all-out space effort by such a discovery is moot: societies sure of their own place in the universe have disintegrated when confronted by a superior society, and others have survived even though changed. Clearly, the better we can come to understand the factors involved in responding to such crises the better prepared we may be.​

You get a report like this from the Brookings institute.... what do you do ? Coverup ? or spread the news when the data comes in lol.

If you found 'stuff' on the moon, would you be in a hurry to go back ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution​

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