Why is E.T existence kept a secret by the government?

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One story is that the government, after seeing the panic caused by Orson Welle's radio broadcast of an invasion of Martians in the 1930's, decided that a revelation of contact with aliens would bring about widespread panic, collapse of religions and economy, and a de-stabilized society in general During the early 1950s (some time after the Roswell incident), Curtis Lemay and Eisenhower formed a committee of top scientists, military and national security folks (progeny of the Men in Black), their task, to decide what to do about alien contact....but that is all speculation.

Now days, however, i would suspect that the public, in general, can accept the truth...but that's just me.

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