Are we Alone?

Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas to all my imaginary followers! I was thinking about the biggest story of 2009 when the recent cover of National Geographic magazine came into view. It was bold for a main stream magazine to propose the question which would have led to ridicule just a decade ago. They meant of course are we alone in the universe and the answer I'm certain is no, we are not alone and our government knows it.
We have already proven that man can travel in space, that there is water elsewhere and recently over 400 new planets have been observed and analyzed using scientific equipment not available, to us, earlier. I asked a woman in her late twenties who worked for the National Institute of Health and is involved in bio-genetics if there could be intelligent life elsewhere and she responded, "it's mathmatically impossible that there isn't". The question of course to many is if so can they or did they come here ever. Even Columbus made log entries on his way to the new world indicative of UFOs and a number of the original 7 astronauts, now old, have reported sightings during their missions. This is not to mention the tens of thousands of credible sightings by intelligent and normal people, civilians, military, pilots and even Jimmuy Carter.......ugh. Too bad the government is so uptight about this and became sucessful at making the subject taboo in polite conversation. Maybe the truth will come out finally in 2010.