What's the most compelling evidence of extra-terrestrial life?

This is a comment made by /u/sexiest_username from an /r/askreddit thread. It's pretty funky. EDIT: Great wall of text fixed.

This is going to get buried, but... aliens, definitely aliens:

ASTRONAUTS

"I believe that these [REDACTED] vehicles and their crews [REDACTED] which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here [REDACTED]" — Colonel Gordon Cooper, Mercury & Gemini Astronaut

"I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that [REDACTED] and the [REDACTED] is real. It has been covered up by governments for quite some time now." —Captain Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut

"...I've been asked [about UFOs] and I've said publicly I thought they [UFOs] were somebody else, some other civilization." — Astronaut Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Commander

"Mission control, we have a [REDACTED], request instructions." — Astronaut Cady Coleman

"I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. [...] It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me - and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared." — Captain Donald Slayton, Mercury Astronaut

"Statistically it's a certainty there are [REDACTED] out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing [REDACTED]. I believe it's possible they even came here." — Dr. Storey Musgrave, NASA Astronaut

"For nearly 50 years, the secrecy apparatus within the United States Government has kept from the public [REDACTED] information." "We have contact with alien cultures." — Astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary

"In my official status, I cannot comment on [REDACTED]. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!" Charles J. Camarda (Ph.D.), NASA Astronaut

NASA, CIA, ARMY, AIR FORCE ETC

"[REDACTED] are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where [REDACTED] come from and what their purpose is..." (1) "Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about [REDACTED]. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that [REDACTED] are nonsense." (2) — Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, first Director of the CIA, 1947-1950

"We had a job to do, wether right or wrong, to keep the public from getting excited." (2) — Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Scientific consultant for Air Force Project Blue Book

"Of course [REDACTED] are real, and they are [REDACTED]. The cumulative evidence for the existence of [REDACTED] is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence." — Air Chief Marshall Lord Hugh Dowding, Commanding Officer of the Royal Air Force during WWII

"Let there be no doubt. [REDACTED] from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of [REDACTED] and many others. How do I know? I was in charge! I think the kids on this planet are wise to the truth, and I think we ought to give it to them. I think they deserve it." — Colonel Philip Corso, Former head of the Foreign Technology Desk for United States Army Research and Development, National Security Council member, Eisenhower Administration.

"We must insist upon full access to [REDACTED]. For instance, in the La case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." — J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the FBI

"We already have the means to [REDACTED], but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity... anything you can imagine we already know how to do." — Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works

"This [REDACTED] situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. [REDACTED] The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious." — General Nathan Twining, US Air Force, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1955-1958

"[REDACTED] are entering our atmosphere at very high speeds and obviously under [REDACTED] control. We must solve this riddle without delay." — Rear Admiral Delmar Fahrney, USNR

"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be [REDACTED]. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from [REDACTED]". — General Douglas MacArthur

ROCKET SCIENTISTS & PHYSICISTS

"It is my thesis that [REDACTED] are real and that they are [REDACTED] from another solar system. There is no doubt in my mind that these objects are [REDACTED] of some sort. I and my colleagues are confident that they do not originate in our [REDACTED] system." — Dr. Hermann Oberth, the "father of modern rocketry"

"I am completely convinced that UFOs have an out-of-world basis." — Dr. Walther Riedel, chief designer and research director at the German rocket center in Peenemunde

"The least improbable explanation is that these things are [REDACTED]... My opinion for some time has been that they have an [REDACTED] origin." — Dr. Maurice Biot, leading aerodynamicists and mathematical physicist

"Of course it is possible that [REDACTED] really do contain [REDACTED] as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up. I wouldn't like to comment on that." — Professor Stephen Hawking

"Yes - most likely they are out there, perhaps even visted, perhaps on our moon." >— Professor Michio Kaku

"The possibility of [REDACTED] either by advanced [REDACTED] civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles." — Dr. Harold Puthoff, Director, Institute for advanced studies at Austin, Author of fundamentals of Quantum Electronics

SOVIET / U.S. PRESIDENTS

"The phenomenon [REDACTED] is real. I know that there are scientific organisations which study the problem. It must be treated seriously." — Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev

"I can assure you that [REDACTED], given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth." — President Harry S. Truman

"I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!" — President Richard M. Nixon

"...I strongly recomment that there be a committee investigation [REDACTED] I think we owe it to the people to establish [REDACTED] and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject." — President Gerald Ford

TLDR: [REDACTED] All credit to /u/OuterWorldly, whose account seems to be deleted, for compiling these. MUCH MUCH MORE here: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/wtabz/computer_hacker_gary_mckinnon_has_no_choice_but/c5gbmqz

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