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If there was anything to this they’d surely have exhumed the remains, Christian burial notwithstanding.

It's actually the perfect cover: the last place anyone would expect you to hide an alien is directly under a sign that says "alien here." Ingenious of them to pull it off and play up this "tourist attraction" angle.

That's my impression too. If anyone legitimately believed alien remains (or parts of an alien spacecraft) was six feet under that rock, the government would've gotten it either by not caring what people in the area thought about it, or literally tunneling under the earth and taking it covertly.

Mulder and Scully need to look into this.

> If anyone legitimately believed alien remains (or parts of an alien spacecraft) was six feet under that rock

It is quite possible that nobody really buys into it.

Or - another theory - the powers that be who would have to authorize it understand that their tourist trap angle is over if it is just a normal dead body. Therefore, it's not worth the risk to discover the truth.

The US government does not care if it has podunk authorization to exhume a body, nor does it care if it's a good tourist trap. Bear in mind the study of alien technology presumably results in complete military and technological superiority on this planet.

Either there never was an alien body there, or the US government has already taken it. There is definitely not alien remains under that rock right now.

What I'm getting at is:

- US Gov't doesn't think there's an alien there. - Local gov doesn't want to risk the loss of tourism.

The US government, publicly at least, has not shown a great deal of interest in investigating UFO reports.

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