im gonna be honest, this type of thing interests me a lot. i strongly suspect most 1st world governments are in direct contact with aliens. the russians have been pretty open about the fact there are extraterrestrials in their country that they know about. 

from what i understand, the ones that are benevolent leave us alone because of the whole human-monkey concept, but the malevolent ones are here and are deeply embedded in global affairs. i know it sounds ridiculous but im pretty sure we have traded and sold out our planet for tech and advances that are kept from the public and slowly released trickle effect through break throughs. the nice ones send us messages in crop circles that read like "beware gifts from false friends" or shit like that and then coordinates to star systems like orion and zeta reticuli which are supposedly the home to malevolent species. 

i know it sonds ridiculous but its not like im referencing a specific conspiracy theory here, although i am referencing a few. its more just a logical and reasonable conclusion given the information available.

they shut down missile silos during the cold war a lot