Disclosure day: If ET made contact, how would we handle the news?

The truth is reportedly out there. But in the case of flying saucers and unidentified anomalous phenomena, what's truly going on seems elusive.

"A few people, including myself, would react with a mixture of concern about the intentions of the intelligences that have been hiding their presence and spying on us — for who knows how long — and excitement over the discovery that there are other intelligences in the universe," Cleland said. "For scholars and scientists, it would be revolutionary.

Making it all the more intriguing is U. S. President Donald Trump's recent directive "to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.