> There is a very very simple explanation
I’m not sure an explanation that presupposes FTL travel is very very simple
I’m not sure an explanation that presupposes FTL travel is very very simple
Our 300,000 year old species didn't even settle down until a mere 12,000 years ago, we didn't really develop proper government systems until 2-3,000 years ago and learnt flight only ~120 years ago.
Within the last 120 years we went to the Moon (!), developed the integrated microchip, the Internet, AR/VR and built deep space solar communications infrastructure, got smartphones, MRTs... you name it.
Even among all of these marvels, we still poop though.
Most likely, even overall technological development forms some kind of sigmoid function. It's likely to hit an absolute wall at some point.
Obviously, though, we have no idea if we're 0.0001% of the way or 10% of the way to that wall.
but if you want a list of hypothetical alternate origins, and don’t have access to the wealth of programming generated by Prometheus and made available on Discovery Networks, thanks to some of the minds of our time, this light summary might help…
* center of the earth is actually hollow, “aliens” are just inner earthlings * one of the other planets or otherwise within the solar system isn’t so dead after all * it’s just us - from the future * it’s just us - from the past * no space travel, no time travel, but parallel earths or dimensions or something * they have always been here, we just are too dumb to see them
I mean.. just accept it at face value. Stop reading into it.
Everything we know about the biology, chemistry, physics and astrophysics makes alien contact with the earth an extreme improbablity. Everything we know about government and intelligence agencies makes a global, mutli-national, multi-government, mass conspiracy to hide aliens an extreme improbability.
Against these mountainous-weights of incredibility one needs more than a retired 36 with a shiny badge who has "heard but not seen" some things.
The improbability of his claims is so vast that even "CIA psyop" becomes plausible against them -- not, least, since it's extremely likely the USA exploited the UFO mass hysteria to disguise its air force development programmes.
Nevertheless, the most probable explanation is that government employees in these agencies are often paranoid believers in the folk mythologies of these agencies --- and are able to maintain these superstitons because they never get senior enough to see they are false.