DiscoveringTruth
Padawan Learner
When I say “Trust” I mean in the context of upholding their sides in any treaty that may have been signed which of course didn’t reveal the full scope of activities that the aliens were involved in. I also meant that it’s portrayed that way in the some ufo circles, not that it’s true. It never made sense to me either since the aliens need the government to keep their mouths shut so that the aliens can pull off their covert operations successfully.I think the government betraying the aliens’ trust doesn’t make sense. Why would the aliens trust them in the first place? Is it because the government’s FRV looked good? Is it because their behavior over a long period of observation proved honorable and trustworthy? I’m going to say no to both. I think the only way STS make deals with other STS that have any hope of lasting is because the reward/benefit of playing along and the possible punishment for violations are sufficiently motivating.
On the flip side why would the government trust the aliens? Same question - they know nothing about them. I wouldn’t trust a human I didn’t know, never mind an alien. Unless they felt like they had no choice due to fear and implications of not playing along. So both sides were “playing along”. The humans because they felt powerless, and the aliens because they knew the humans are scared but also greedy.
The government and aliens both have incentive to keep the aliens secret from the population. The tech and other stuff is really just to sweeten the deal.
But like any deal made by psychopaths with other psychopaths, it’s only going to last as long as the rewards and punishments continue to be motivating. But the aliens have the ultimate power in this deal. They can violate it with minimum to no consequences - the government will still keep it a secret to keep themselves from losing power. The government don’t have any recourse and are at their mercy. They simply cannot tell the truth without consequence to themselves. However, they know there would be a consequence to the aliens as well, however it won’t be fatal like it would be to the government.
So yeah I think the aliens never needed to make any deals and never needed any permission. They just wanted to make sure the government doesn’t accidentally freak out and reveal something, so they met with them to basically say “yea we exist and we are around doing stuff, don’t freak out, but don’t get in our way. Here’s some toys and promises we won’t bother you if you behave”. That was clearly enough to keep the whole thing quiet.
The only way there would be a disclosure is if the government is already on its way out and does it out of sheer spite and desperation as a sort of last “f u”. Or if the aliens decide to introduce themselves because it fits into their plans.
So the universe and ourselves is all we got. Unless of course we “incentivize” the government with mass guillotines, which would change the terms of the deal in their heads real quick.
The government has been trying to reverse engineer alien tech for decades as per whistleblower testimony (Grusch etc). The fact that there was a treaty in place once means that some technology transfer would have been promised by the aliens but it is abundantly clear that UFO anti gravity tech was not part of the agreement since the Govt and its contractors still don’t know how it works. So what else was promised that was so lucrative to the military/government?
Also, I wouldn’t be so sure that only way for disclosure would be if the government were on its way out. There seem to be at least 2-3 factions within the Govt and military industrial complex and one of them is softly pushing to reveal certain aspects of this phenomenon whatever the real motive for it may be.