> If there are alien craft flying in a manner even remotely alleged by most UFO people, then we as a civilization are dead. D-E-A-D. Our best hope is compliant slaves or an interesting zoo.

No, we're not. You clearly haven't read The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Cooperation-Revised-Robert-... . One of the startling broad-reaching conclusions you will reach after reading this book is that cooperation even between entities or groups of disparate power is always better in the long run assuming future contact will occur. That last part is the tricky bit, and is why (for example) divorce proceedings are so acrimonious. So sure, if you enslave someone, or a bunch of people, you will get a quick fix. But in the long run you will both gain far more cooperating, because cooperation enables people to contribute more to each other.

IF these beings expect to deal with us for the foreseeable future, THE ONLY wise choice is cooperation. Period. And if that was NOT their goal, then I would submit that we'd already be 1) exploited for all we were worth already and then 2) killed or imprisoned by now.

UFO reports (of the disc-shaped, wingless, noiseless, impossibly-performing standard kind) have been occurring since WW2( "foo fighters"). We're clearly VERY interesting; possibly the newest kids on the block, as it were...

Folks interested in reading more about the Prisoner's Dilemma might want to read Robert Axelrods' The Evolution of Cooperation.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Evolution-Cooperation-Revised-Edit...

He also wrote a follow-up book, The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complexity-Cooperation-Agent-Based...

Buy the author's book: http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Cooperation-Revised-Robert-A...

And please put a NSFW tag on links to a racist's website (no, this is not about the graphic, this is about the rest of the content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Sheppard_%28activist%29).