Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Stewart W. Bench, author of the new A Cosmic Encounter. To many people who have experienced a sighting of a UFO or these days a UAP (!) and particularly those of us who have had a face-to-face encounter with extraterrestrials, there's no question that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the cosmos. The denial of that possibility by some factions might prompt many of us to question the extent of intelligent life here! For over seventy years, government agencies charged with investigation of convincingly other-worldly phenomena have insisted that it's not of extraterrestrial origin. The motive appears to be the fear of adverse public reaction