What I believe is this hold topic is a joke.

What people believe in or don’t believe in as far as I’m concern is personal and at the end their beliefs might even pan out to be true.

If someone believes in space aliens or not, climate change or not does not make them gullible it’s just their beliefs.

I’m not religious and I’m sure many who are posting their negative opinions are worshipers of some sort. Though I do not subscribe to their religious beliefs and financially trough the tax system in this country I’m forced to support their beliefs in one way or another, I tolerate their beliefs without question because I know this is what they need to get themselves through the day.

I don't believe that ANYTHING is possible, I mean, Taylor Swift isn't going to ask me out, but I'm willing to state that there are any number of things that are not possible now, but might be later, based on scientific advancements.

But in the absence of any evidence as I've described, plus the issues with vast distances, light speed travel, much less faster than light travel, I can only draw one conclusion - we have never been visited by intelligent alien life.

Happy to be proven wrong. But no one has managed to do it yet.

Maybe, maybe not..
 

"There's a sucker born every minute." Phineas T. Barnum.
Interestingly, that comment can apply to either side of an "argument" like this. Pick a subject.

For most of human history the average speed on land was 3 mph. Speed under sail, particularly in open water, was a bit better: maybe 6 knots (about 7 mph). If you wanted to go coast-co-coast in 1860 you had several choices: covered wagon = 5-6 months. Taking a sailing ship around Cape Horn took roughly 200 days, assuming you got there at all. Going down to the isthmus of Panama, crossing overland and boating on up the Pacific coast took about 43 days. Then steam power came of age and with the transcontinental railroad you could get from NY to San Francisco in a week--and at 85% less cost. Today? About four hours.

Remember when the sound barrier, according to quite a few educated minds at the time, was NEVER going to be broken? We were also NEVER going to reach the moon. We would NEVER discover other planets because they didn't exist. Lots of NEVERS back then. Heck, I knew plenty of people in my youth who before Orville and Wilbur came on the scene thought that heavier-than-air flight was NEVER going to be achieved. Until it was.

I heard once some time back (1980?) that the sum total of humanity's knowledge doubles every two years. Maybe. Sounds like a huge number and I suck at math. But one thing I DO know is that the people claiming NEVER, will, in time, ALWAYS be wrong.

I probably won't be around to see it, but I have no doubt that my grandchildren will, one day, be able to see Voyagers 1 and 2 on display at the Smithsonian. And the history books of THEIR children will contain detail not only evidence of alien life but also the encounters between aliens and humans.

Actually sightings have increased with all the cell phones, but you would know that if you listened to congressional hearings on the subject. Personally, I’ve taken photos and videos through my telescope of them. The one I photographed was a plasma ship that suddenly morphed into a solid spaceship and then morphed back into an energy plasma ship. Just because you haven’t experienced something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Out of trillions of planets the creator made, we aren’t the only beings in the universe. To think otherwise would be very elitist of us.

Seems the naivety is to think that in this great expanse of the universe we live in that we are the only living creatures. That this tiny dot that we call earth is the only place where life can exist. Kind of like when the supposedly wise used to say the earth is flat. Not willing to think outside of the box.

Agreed.

Add to that also that we exist on a tiny rock about 400 or so degrees above absolute zero. Most of the real estate in this universe is far hotter, gassier, more radioactive and larger than our rock. We search for life as we know it: i.e. at approximately the same stage of technological development or a bit more, perceive time similarly to us, breathe oxygen, use electromagnetic waves for communication, and live on a rock similar to ours. But there could be other intelligent life in this universe, possibly in our own solar system, and maybe even on our rock, that is so different from ours that we are incapable of recognizing it.

Yet.

Eisenhower Briefing
 

This was released last year by FBI through National Archives. Make of it what you will.

Believing that we are alone in the universe is the ultimate hubris.
Let’s put you center stage in an arena with 10,000 people from ALL walks of life who claim to have seen a UAP; who have NOTHING at all to gain by relating their experiences except ridicule by people like you, and have you tell them all to their faces that they are all crazy. Who’s the A-hole now!!

I lived in Connecticut, my house was beachfront on Long Island Sound. One night I went to bed, and noticed an odd saucer shaped thing with lights around it, in the corner on the big sliding doors to the deck. Hmmmm..... I watched it for what seemed like an eternity, because I knew it was over water, but didn't know why it was hovering in place. Planes don't do that. I fell asleep, and thought that was the end of it. The next night it was back! I actually woke my teenager up, and made her come look at it....... same thing. Never saw it after that second night. No one will ever convince me that there's no such thing, something is out there.

Their reasoning is probably beyond your comprehension. Why do some people earn PhDs. from studying insects. They have their reasons or they wouldn’t be doing it.

How many reports of UAPs have there been since, say, WW 2? 10,000? 50,000? 500,000? More?

Let's go with the high number. 500,000. But if even ONE of those reports is the real deal, all of a sudden those other 499,999 don't matter.

Non-believers these days, with the evidence available, are uninformed Luddites.

Let's have a vote.
Who's the stupid one?
The non-believer or the one with several science degrees and a background of working "in the industry?"

I have seen Chemtrails from geoengineering but no aliens to see there.
I have seen gaslighting propaganda from media outlets but no aliens to see there.
People who lead boring lives can chase stories of aliens if it gives their life purpose.