The discovery of alien life or Earth-like planets and the implications to the world was a crucial item on the agenda at the annual World Economic Forum, or WEF, in Davos, Switzerland.

World business leaders and prominent politicians gathered to discuss issues or risks that the world may have to confront in the next decade.

So how did ETs become part of the mix?

In conjunction with the international science journal, Nature, the WEF came up with five “X Factor” items which it refers to as “unheralded dangers that sneak up on us.”

One of those risk issues that Earth and its inhabitants may soon face is “the possible social consequences of contact with alien life,” according to Nature.

The risk factor of all of this comes with the long-term psychological and philosophical implications that will accompany the discovery of alien life.

“It will suggest that life is as natural and as ubiquitous a part of the universe as the stars and galaxies,” the report continued. “The discovery of even simple life would fuel speculation about the existence of other intelligent beings and challenge many assumptions that underpin human philosophy and religion.”

*(There has definitely been a recent leadup of recent mainstream news stories on UFO activity, the discussion of Extraterrestrial life, and the search for Earth like Exoplanets. Wether this all part of the acceleration of information, or a coordinated campaign to disclose the possible reality of Alien life, I shall leave up to your own independent investigation.)*