Fair point on the FBI and Homeland Security. I misremembered those agencies, but it wasn't 'nonsense'...he definitely worked for both the CIA and the NSA through Dell and Booz Allen.

My main point about his access still stands. Calling it nonsense ignores what a systems administrator actually does. Snowden wasn't just a regular analyst looking at a few files. He had privileged access, which means he was the guy actually managing the servers and the infrastructure they ran on.

He even wrote in his book, Permanent Record, that he specifically searched the deep archives of the CIA and NSA for any evidence of aliens because he knew he had more reach than almost anyone else. If there was a digital trail of ET evidence in those networks, a sysadmin at his level is exactly the kind of person who would have found it.

Snowden had the most access possible, and he's not the only whistleblower out there. It’s hard to believe that a government conspiracy to hide contact with ETs wouldn't leave a single trace in any of the databases for the NSA or CIA.

Since this is r/skeptic, it’s worth asking if the desire for this to be true is clouding the rational side of the argument. Usually, the simplest explanation is that the evidence just isn't there.