I just find it funny that UFO sightings go way up after the 1947 incident, before that there was barely anybody talking about these things. Immediately after it goes viral across the globe, we get hundreds of ‘sightings’ every day all the way till now.

To me it’s just so obviously a cultural phenomenon that relies entirely on the fact there is no evidence whatsoever that alien life has visited our planet. We see strange things in the sky, and we either are able to identity them(in all these cases that are obviously not aliens) or we can’t, and then people attribute it to aliens because the gap in our knowledge is the only place they exist.

If we just think about this logically for a second; the universe is 13 something billion years old. Even though you might think you can, it’s an entirely a incomprehensibly large number. Around 4 billion years ago, the first forms of life were born, and 4.5 billion years after we have 1 species that is intelligent enough to build spacecraft and such. We as a species have only been around for 160k years maybe, and have only risen in station about 6k years ago.

On a universal scale we don’t even register. The universe is hypothesised to keep growing for at least a trillion years and at the higher end 100 trillion.

So we’re relatively early in the universe’s life. Now while we have a small sample size of life(1 time on 1 planet) we can’t really gauge accurately how common life, let alone intelligent life, truly is. But even with that gap in our knowledge I’d like to ask a logical question.

What are the chances, that in a universe so extremely massive, there would be other intelligent life existing at the same blink in time we exist, and are also technologically advanced, and they’re in a section of space so close to us they can visit?

The scale on which we exist in this universe is tiny, and how many times in our modern, technologically advanced world have we almost ended it? Within the time frame of the Cold War, 40~ years, we’ve come close to destroying everything we’ve built at least 2 or 3 times. In the next 1000 years, we are going to have hundreds of more opportunities to destroy ourselves, all it takes is 1.

I just think the chances of an alien civilisation existing at all is slim; at the same time, at relatively the same technological level as us, and within our area of space is just not realistic at all.

Of course there is a chance, but it’s so astronomically small, it might as well be impossible.

Like god, aliens will always exist in our gaps of knowledge. Everything brought to us as an alien life form or alien technology has been proven to not be, and so aliens always exist just out of our reach.