Do you think that our present society is ready for a UFO disclosure?

Over ready. Hollywood and UFO fans have been disclosing it since 1947. Some even claim they've been abducted by aliens. Our society is not just ready but obsessed with UFO. The Ancient Alien guy with a funny hairdo. It's incredible they keep playing this crap on cable TV and equally incredible that people keep on watching it

The UFO fans would be disappointed if the government discloses it because that would take out all the fun in their conspiracy theories and their secret knowledge of aliens. I would be relieved the Ancient Alien show will finally end hopefully

This is sort of a loaded question, because your phrasing indicates that the government is hiding something concerning UFOs that would startle the general public if revealed.

To answer your question the best I can, first I should state that there is zero evidence that any UFO is a vehicle or device originating from extraterrestrial civilizations. It's just not there.

Second, we can consider that contact with extraterrestrial intelligence is made. Based on our technology, the most likely scenario of such contact is through radio signals sent through space.

The US government actually cut all government funding for SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the 1980s. Congress figured it's a waste of money. All SETI efforts are now conducted through private funding.

Let us consider the hypothetical discovery of Aliens. Who will know first? NASA? A radio observatory owned by a university? The new Chinese radio observatory? These efforts are international.

Fictional scenario: The S---- Radio Observatory in Canberra Australia, established in 2031, operated by the M--- University, detects a signal from 1500 light years away and believes it is a transmission by an Alien civilization. Who do they first contact regarding their supposed discovery? You better believe there will be a lot of scientific controversy over it. Some might even say it's a fake. Is a message deciphered? What does it say? For one thing, we would certainly monitor and record signals from the source. But it's an awfully distant long-distance call. We send out our own signals, and hope that 3000 years later (after they transmitted that signal) they are receiving signals. That's the same distance in time as we are from the Ancient Egyptians- Rome wouldn't exist yet. That's how long each of us would have to wait for an answer from the other.

If Alien signals are detected, it might be anti-climactic. People would probably get bored with it, unless the signals were deciphered and told us the history of their civilization as it unfolded- and maybe even destroyed itself, or is destroyed by natural circumstances. They might switch technology (like our switch from binary to analog), and then we'd be in the dark.

It's been 69 years since Roswell. The surge in UFO popularity really spiked back in the 90's which helped with the release of the TV series X-Files and the heightened popularity with the premier of Star Trek: The Next Generation and segments from Unsolved Mysteries.

However with priorities shifting away from space travel, Star Trek isn't dominating tv right now, Unsolved Mysteries no longer on (especially with Robert Stack dead), and Roswell no longer peaking anyone's interest, I would say we are less ready for disclosure than we were 20 years ago.

By the way, PHYSICAL evidence from an investigation over 10 years ago verified it was anything BUT a weather balloon and showing to verify it was extraterrestrial. And REAL scientists and REAL theoretical phycisists says the light barrier can be bypasses with such REAL research on wormholes and warp drive.

Disclosures have been going on for half a century. The government keeps disclosing that ufos are nothing more than shortcomings of perception, knowledge and personal integrity. Do you really need more than that?

And society is more than ready for these disclosures. In fact evidence suggests that the public is actually getting tired of the continuing farce known as ufos. The never ending farce of fakery, lies and gaudy graphics that just goes nowhere.

Cheers!

I think society is ready. I had an experience with a UFO and a military helicopter that left no doubt in my mind the UFO phenomena is real, and after a few days of shock and awe I returned to my normal old self. If I can handle it anyone can.

Well... assuming aliens truly *are* visiting Earth (and... I don't believe that to be the case...):

Every day, the knowledge that life might exist elsewhere - and, intelligent life at that - is growing. 100 years ago, people would think of you as daft to suggest that there's other worlds with civilization on them; 50-60 years ago, with the advent of movies dealing with flying saucers, and books about aliens, the idea went from impossible to just terrifying, 40 years ago, it was thought that at least *some* alien races might be peaceful and/or friends, and within the last 30 years or so, talking about alien culture and philosophy went from the fringe to mainstream.

With the discovery in the last 25-30 years of planets beyond Earth - and, *lots* of them - the idea that *some* might actually support life is beginning to take hold in the general public.

With all that said... 100 years ago, an alien ship landing on the White House lawn in mid-World War I would've triggered panic and chaos from the ultimate unknown... Since that time, we've come to discover much about space, and we've come to expect that aliens that have progressed to develop spaceflight won't be monsters; true, they may be *hostile*, but they'd be people (of a sort) from another planet... As a culture, we'd still probably harbor much fear - but, it wouldn't be outright terror; and, instead of running, I think we'd at least try to communicate. While cautious, I think we'd *try* to make friends... As opposed to 100 years ago, where we'd shoot first (and second, and third, and fourth), then ask questions later...

STOP PRESS: UFO disclosure:: :: :: A UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object. This means that it is anything in the sky that the observer cannot identify. It does not mean "Alien Spaceship" and only ignorant morons think otherwise.

No, I do not think that our present society is ready for it.

Those who have seen a UFO, and *know* what they've seen, are a vast minority.

If `full disclosure` were to occur,

the next two-to-three generations of Humans, along with their uncertainty,

would live in a fear that would remain far too deep, and far too constant, for far too long.

Are we ready to find out there are unidentified flying objects? Yes. Just look into the sky at night time. Unless you have some very specific training, most of the objects you see flying across the sky will be unidentifiable to you.

Extraterrestrials? No. You have to realize how ignorant human beings still are and how steeped in religions they are. Extraterrestrials don't fit into their silly religions so they would have a melt-down.

We have already had UFO disclosure. There is no evidence for UFOs. That was easy.