LOL - that's quite ironic. Coincidence or on purpose?
What made me wonder all this time - if this is true and they "appoint" a person for Alien first contact. How is that supposed to go down? IF aliens land on earth, how could they control who has the actual first contact anyhow??? Will they say "Wait, nobody move or speak until she arrives"???
It doesn't make sense. Unless they know something - OR - they're just playing mind games with us and are trying to divert our attention away from something else.
Quick - everybody look at other stuff that we could be overlooking while we're busy discussing this issue :D.