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"It is important because if you're driving down the highway and you saw a crash of a small spaceship and a car or a bus full of kids, you really wouldn't know what to do," Peckman said Thursday. "Do you wait for the hazardous materials experts to show up because of potential contaminants from another solar system? What do you do? People really don't know."
Originally posted by toreishi
Unfortunately I didn't quite ask what one should do in a close-encounter event but I did ask if an agency or branch of the US government has been created to handle this kind of situation.
Yes or No.
If not, then shouldn't one be created? Or do we all think that a military response would be the best that the US, or the Earth - for that matter; could offer in the case of an alien visitation?
Peckman hopes to collect enough signatures - he needs about 4,000 - to get the proposed initiative on the November ballot. ...the proposed initiative is "a shortcut to disclosure of the knowledge of extraterrestrial beings on Earth and interacting with people on Earth."
Originally posted by toreishi
"It is important because if you're driving down the highway and you saw a crash of a small spaceship and a car or a bus full of kids, you really wouldn't know what to do," Peckman said Thursday.