Cambridge University physicist Stephen Hawking was the guest lecturer at the second Millennium Evening at the White House on March 6, 1998. With President Bill and Hillary Clinton looking on, Stephen Hawking admitted the possibility of a UFO cover-up during C-Span coverage of "Imagination and Change: Science in the Next Millennium." Professor Stephen Hawking, often considered one of the brightest men on Earth and author of "A Brief History of Time" was a guest lecturer.
After comments about the growth of population and scientific knowledge, Hawking stated the following: "Clearly the present exponential growth cannot continue indefinitely. So what will happen? One possibility is that we wipe ourselves out completely by some disaster such as a nuclear war. There is a sick joke that the reason we have not been visited by extraterrestrials is that when a civilization reaches our stage of development it becomes unstable and destroys itself. Of course it is possible that UFOs really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up. I wouldn't like to comment on that. Personally I believe there is a different explanation why we have not been contacted, but I won't go into it here. However, even without that, there is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so. Even if we don't destroy ourselves completely, there is a possibility that we might descend into a state of brutalization and barbarity like the opening scene of "Terminator".

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