Thanks for the thread! I´ve actually thought it myself, that the best way to disclosure would be something like this - if benevolent aliens are here, waching us and wanting to start open contact, then it would be good idea to fisrtly bring some group(s) of volunteers, ordinary people from all parts of the world aboard, let them take photos, film everything, interview aliens (giving them oportunity to introduce themselves, bring their message and just say first hello ). Then these people come back with recordings and physical evidence. It´s much better way than appearing over major cities, because this would cause mass panic.
But at the same time, I think this blog can´t be taken seriously. Especially because they make list of people who send e-mail to one person - most people don´t get a chance then, because most people don´t know anything about this blog and many people don´t have internet. And then aliens locate people with their e-mail address Something this important should be arranged differently, I imagine, that aliens would observe many people and propose those, who are open minded and genuinly interested about this topic.
Sometimes I have a feeling, that this kind of info is generally right, but some forces want to discredit it by giving false dates and false promises, so people will dissapoint and stop believening in these scenarios. Also to make people feel quilty, because they were not ready and those all mission failed, wich is worst thing about this kind of channelings IMHO. It has happened since 60s, when galactic federation first appeard in channeled materials. They have been giving dates and promises in every decade and it has always ended with disappointment. But it might be crying the wolf thing.
After all it´s 2012 and several predictions say, that this is the year when star people return. In other word it means first contact. I really hope this to be true, but I´m quite sceptical too - like you sayd, OP, this is the child part of us who don´t want to be let down

Any updates so far ?
2nd

It doesn't look like anything has happened yet. Steve Beckow seems upset if he doesn't get to go, himself (assuming there's even anything up there at all in the first place). And now, it seems he's trying to backpedal and go back on his promise of "leaving public life forever". The cynic in me blames Linda Dillon. I listened to her channeling. You can download the .mp3 from Steve's blog. She sounds like a moneygrubbing fraud to me. She charges 175$ an hour, and 100$ for 1/2 an hour? Hell, sounds like a good business. I can make stuff up on the fly too, and come up with something better than "space bicycles", that's for sure.

Here is an update from John Lear (apparently a UFO/Area 51 writer). I do apologize for it's length, quite interesting to say the least.

02/04/2012
It was a long tour. It’s a big ship. A literal flying city. Sorry I didn’t report back sooner. I was exhausted. The amount of wondrous things I saw and all the information I learned can really tire one out. Anyway only a small number of folks were actually picked up. 25 that I counted personally. It was told to us that Mr Beckow and a lot of others could not be picked up at this time due to the fact that Mr Beckow made all of this too public.

It was supposed to be a behind the scenes first step. But with all the attention on Mr Beckow it was almost impossible for them to retrieve him and most of the others as there were safety concerns. We were told that Mr Beckow and others were put under surveillance after all this becoming so public against the wishes of those on the Neptune. But they said they do appreciate all the work he has done and he will be contacted personally at the first possible time when it is safe.

Today I am allowed to take photos and post them back to earthnet. I have a few mandatory training exercises I need to go do but I will check back in later. This is all so surreal.

Can’t believe this is actually happening. Mr Beckow made this too public and had some unsavory intelligence types watching his every move. There was no way they could have picked him up without incident is what we were told. I have taken over 200 photos. However the terminals on the ship don’t have a USB port so I will ask the adviser assigned to me my best option for uploading some of these photos the next time I see her. You should see the clothes these people wear. quite cool

And I can assure you this trip was most definitely not canceled. It was revised and made smaller. You guys gotta remember there are some very powerful people that don’t want this open contact between our space family and us to take place. Especially by passing the ‘official government channels’. Might we actually learn the truth for ourselves without ‘gov’t officials’ filtering it first! this is inevitable. And from what I”ve learned what you gotta realize is that the Earth is equivalent to a backwoods small town in the big galactic picture. There are many billions more umans living throughout the galaxy than on Earth.

These other humans see us as quite naive babies actually. Like a tribe in the Amazon who has not made contact with the rest of the world. On top of that they see most of us as being brainwashed with lies and abused. Made to eat unhealthy crap. Poverty. We are in quite a sad state. Hopefully this will all change soon. As for Mr. Beckow, hopefully he learned an important lesson about shouting things from the rooftop when they should not be. Remember he is under surveillance. At this time it is better for him to believe this was a failure and he is leaving public life. This is for his own safety. When the time is right he will be told that in fact, the trip was a success and finally be able to see the fruits of his labors.

Anyway I have already become addicted to the gravity free game court. so much fun floating around. the rest of the ship has artificial gravity, but they have told us it is only at 83% of what it is on earth so it feels quite nice actually and a bit different. You want to hear something funny. When I first tried to post yesterday I got a message “Banned from GLP” from the ship lol. God knows what ISP range they are using. Anyway it took a few attempts before I was finally able to post. This isn’t my normal GLP ID. So whatever those other threads are seems like an attempt by the dark cabal to derail this at every chance

They don’t use deodorant! I forgot my deodorant so I tried to go get some in the supply area. They said they don’t use deodorant. The lady at the counter rolled her eyes and gave me a package that contained two small strips. really small, about a 1/4 of an inch long by 1/8 inch thick. She looked at me like I am some sort of caveman and told me to just stick each strip inside my shirt in the pit area and i would be fine. I asked her how it worked and she said it was akin to what we would consider some sort of smart nanotech. where this stuff could find the stink particles and eradicate them lol. she didn’t seem like she is the scientific type so who knows. anyway hopefully they work!

Speaking of dinner there are literally THOUSANDS of options to chose from. Including earth cuisine. I tried some exotic stuff. I tried some form of seafood from some planet they call Octuria. I tried to act polite but had to spit it out. But alot of the stuff is very similar to what we eat. And a lot of it isn’t. We have been told that tomorrow we will be taking a tour of this local part of the galaxy. Starting with a stop at each planet in this solar system. So far we have just remained in orbit around the earth. Tomorrow should make for some really inte