I didn't add below the ET presence and its expected disclosure. The way the things are know, delayed purportedly not only by Obama but by all governments who have contacts, seems to me they expect some event(s) to use the imminent ET disclosure for their own goals. The first event that comes to mind is the first rapture that will be made to look like an evil alien abduction. Then the really evil aliens on Earth (together with some good ones) will be presented to the public. Is it possible the Disclosure to be also the Declaration Day of the Antichrist after the Great Warning? It is, if we see further delay in that matter. Then we should expect very one sided disclosure with only those regressive ET who already serve the antichrist agenda - Grey, Reptilians, others. Perhaps a disclosure will be made before a comet or asteroid to hit the earth, and will be offered an escape way for selected people. Despite being very evil, the antichrist forces need their people, therefore they chip them and "save" them from the doom they already told us is coming. Oh unfortunately the doom is real. It would be good if it was only talk because in that way we would not see anything on January 1st 2013.
Parallel to the evil ones, there will be good ET who will help the Woman in the desert, as well as the left behinders of Revelation 12:17 who still hold God's commandments. You see there is a war of the dragon with them! It is not just going from country to country and offering: take the chip or die. It is too naive such a protestant picture. First the chip will be voluntarily promoted and millions will take it because of the offered benefits. And second, there will be countries who will resist and even have a war. I see in that role Russia, thanks to Fatima promise of conversion to God as a condition for the Era of Peace (Millennium most probably). Don't expect Russia to become catholic if at that time in Rome the false prophet/Antichrist have usurped the see of Peter according to prophecies. (blessed Elizabeth Canori Mora among many others). Not all the countries will be invaded by the Beast however, and prophet Daniel doesn't have a full list. In fact he only mentions several countries at all..The refuges are exactly the regions where the beast will not have access - whether they are as big as a state or smaller, we don't know.