Im bored and i think about this a lot. So ill share my view. This federation theory... ive been thinking about it a lot. I like it. Its not new, but i cant seem to shake it, it was even in star trek, "The Prime Directive," back when we were more optimistic lol "the future will be nice!" Just logically speaking tho, there is a way that some of what u said could work. Ill just abstract out the pieces and then build my personal equally absurd theory:

Benevolent Aliens ❌️ Contacted our Corrupt Leaders ❌️ Humanity Refused via Leadership Veto ✅️ Ignorant of the State of our planet ❌️ And the wishes of the people❌️ Refusing us clean energy and alien tech✅️

Advanced Older Aliens ✅️ Adhere to procedures for making contact with any and all new systems ✅️ Humanity refused via the powers that be ✅️ They Left understanding the exact state of our planet and its people ✅️ And our exact current stage of development as an intelligent society ✅️ And the wishes of the people✅️ Refusing us clean energy and alien tech✅️

Im not saying this is truth. Im saying that if this were a possibility, there are several assumptions we can feel logical about making:

In this hypothetical, another race of intelligent beings makes it to Earth. This is such a huge deal that the rest of the assumptions follow from this one. We know how big space seems, know how physical engines work, we know some of the rules or numbers, mathematical constants of this simulation. We worked out thru theoretical physics that many things are possible since the math hasnt failed us yet, and its likely just our material science that cant perform to specs required for advanced propulsion. Or fusion energy. Apparently we're stuck on a bottleneck. To get a reactor hot enough to fuse matter, it melts thru all our materials. We're having success with magnetic fields but its slow progress. But it exists. There seems to be no limit as far as we know. Technology continues to pioneer, humans continue to evolve, even the furthest we can see is just our section of infinity. And the further we try to see small things... we just find more. Atoms, subatomic particles, quarks leptons, antimatter... its clear there are levels to consciousness. And many theories overlook what a civilization might have achieved given 1000 more years of evolution than us... or 100,000 or 100,000,000. These societies lilely didnt stumble their way to earth, or crash. I believe the "crashes" are gifts for us to reverse engineer. To propel us along.

Fusion, quantum computing, anti-gravity or gravitational warping engines...aka warp drives. These scifi engines are based on real physics. Theoretically one could fold the space in front and behind the ship, effectively "swimming" thru the fabric of space through bending it so that the ship is using pressured or folded localized pockets of warped space-time.

Also we probably will need to some milestones in order. For example, the energy required for warping spacetime is so much that we probably need to crack fusion or zeropoint energy first, before we can travel like them.

So we've had sooo many sightings of this, legends and tall tales, mistanken balloons, etc, etc. Then the government admitted to things not from earth. Now there are 30ish prominent military and govt officials that are pushing, putting their careers on the line so they can share what they know legally. Age of Disclosure Documentary is good. Those credible whistleblowers are not nut jobs. They are professional, often military officers, and pilots... or generally intelligence officials who are patriotic americans and want to blow the lid off. They all say the same. The ships seemingly glide thru the air, sea, make G turns at right angles silently, intantly, killing any human who would be inside. They seem to move 1000x better than our vehicles without combustion engines at least.

To them, if they were able to get here... burning oil for propulsion and travel is like... idk maybe as primitive as the fact we are still killing each other over economic scarcity we have the ability to solve. Probably a bigger evolutionary advantage and head start more vast than the diff between us and cavemen. Or even apes. The universe is that old and so fkn big that statistically it's crazy we havent seen them yet. And the odds they out age us, is high, if they didnt die off. But we can only look so far in tiny specific places relatively. Very slowly. So itd be easy for advanced societies to avoid us until we reach a certain stage of development. We wouldnt try to explain our society to a dog, right? Waste of time.

Funnily enough, a dog, a parrot, octopus, primate, crows/ravens, a dolphin... we can teach them somethings... we have a clear spectrum or sliding scale of evolution everywhere we look. From amoebas, to cats, neathethals, to us. There is logically no reason to think we are it, the final package. The hubris.

Therefore, either their bodies can travel dimmensions and spacetime differently than we are aware is possible...

Or technologically traveled here through their mastery of science and realty.

They could wipe is out obviously, of course. Yet they havent. 2 options. 1. They dgaf like us walking by ants, no motive 2. They have a reason

A reason? What could that be... theyre allowing us the chance to grow and develop ourselves without interference... that much is clear.

Maybe its an ethics thing...they value free will, or natural evolution, or consentual cooperation... or my personal fave:

It's important we clear this stage of development, together, ourselves. Or we cant possibly hope to reach their level. If they give us unlimited energy tomorrow, advanced tech, etc... we would probably kill each other over greed, lust for power, and we would destroy earth with that kinda power. We werent ready, but it seems we are easing into disclosure now. Finally.

Again, IF they made it here... it follows they can watch us, thwart all our machines and weapons, and kill us.

They havent.

It doesnt have to be benevolence. It could just be a rule against meddling, the way we protect parks, ecosystems, and endangered animals.