Any Sci-fi nerd should be saying “well, duh” to all the press and government “revelations”. Of course there’s life somewhere in the universe. There’s at least other life in our galaxy, and there’s so many galaxies as well as the universe itself currently expanding. I don’t feel like any of these disclosures are particularly world-changing. They feel more like rejected X-Files scripts. I don’t see the angle but I’m sure there is one they are playing with it. I believe there’s aliens but I don’t believe the disclosures. Make sense? Am I just so cynical about the billionaires and the news outlets and governments they own that I can’t believe they’d ever give us a useful disclosure on this topic? (Or any others tbf but this is just about aliens.) Or: are they genuine and will the next decade of further disclosures actually result in something meaningful as they slowly drip feed information and lead up to some kind of public contact? Edit: If you haven't read the same stuff I have, it's been warming up for the past 6-9 months or so I guess https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-ne...crashed-ufos-ex-government-researcher-claims/ https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/ufo-whistleblower-alien-types-us-government-389792-20250811 https://www.war.gov/UFO/ There have been public hearings as well where military staff have gone through evidence and stated there's no known explanation for many close encounters and suggesting that aliens are the only explanation (although not actually offering any confirmation of actual contact).
Sorry… I feel like someone’s turned over several pages at once here… Are you asking in general terms, or is there some news I’m missing…?
Fermi paradox and Great Filter, there's stages all species and civilisations have to go through, and at each one they could fail, sometimes catastrophically, look at all of the fallen empires in our history, and fossils of extinct species. So to this end finding life our there is actually scary, if we find no other life we might be the first and the filter is likely behind us; if we find life getting to this point is easy and the filter is ahead of us, the filter could even be other, aggressive alien races. Seems contradictory, but finding life is actually worse, philosophically speaking. It also leads to the silent jungle theory, where there's lots of life, but there's some super predatory species who go any exterminate it when its detected, so all life that survives hate learnt to stay hidden, like animals in a jungle going quiet even a predatory makes itself known. The only question is, are we the predatory, or a prey thats screaming loudly into the jungle...
The US released some of their ufo files, which basically said "there have been no alien visitors". To all the sane people this is no great shock.
There is either intelligent life out there, there has been and it's gone or we're the first. Or we're just all in a sandbox and this is just a perverse game.
I believe there may well be life on other planets, possibly intelligent, just because there are so many stars, with so many orbiting planets, there surely must be some with conditions suitable to support life. However, the limitations imposed by physics, mean we are highly unlikely to ever confirm intelligent life on another planet. This may have confused some Americans:
I edited some articles and info into the top post, I guess I assumed that we'd all be the kind of people who'd be seeing and reading these kinds of articles!
My basic theory is this. For there to be nothing out there, every single reported UFO/UAP sighting in history would have to be either a mistake or a hoax. Even if just one sighting was neither of these, there is something out there. *Not a scientist
Look at it another way. Do you really think that intelligent beings on another planet, having detected signs of life here, are going to spend the equivalent of many Earth years (possibly thousands or more), at huge cost to get to us, then just take a quick peek and bugger off home?
If there was an intelligent life form out there that was capable of travelling across galaxies like it was a casual sunday afternoon stroll the chance of them having missed our entire solar system is like 99.9999% just due to the absurd scale of the universe and on top of that they would have needed access to space travel during specific times, imagine some alien was scouting our solar system for a place to build a holiday home during an ice age... in other words, they may well have ignored earth due it being an inhospitable wasteland at whatever time they found it. Or maybe aliens are real and life on earth is just a science fair project of some alien kid.
We know Earth was created by mice and, don't forget, the Norwegian Fjords were designed by an old geezer called Slartibartfast...
Very much this. The expanse of the observable universe is practically too big to comprehend, plus we have no idea what is beyond our vision and for how far it goes. I believe there has to be some other form of life in that huge space with a heptagobizillion stars and lord knows how many planets to multiply that with. That might be single celled organisms, it might be more complex life, but I might as well as my bath mat. The chances of another intelligent life developing, obtaining technological level to develop intergalactic travel that was fast enough to be worth it, and that happening just at the point we are now, is so low that you could have typed "0." at the big bang, held your finger on the zero key, and you would not have enough zeros yet. We are not that interesting. We still haven't quantified how time is not a dimension but a frequency!
If there is intelligent life out there and they've been to have a look they no doubt a way of doing so that we wouldn't be able to detect. Plus we're still at a stupid development stage as a species for us to be of any more than a poke-a-stick-lool-at-that thing
Aliens have visited our solar system, and continue to do so; to perform maintenance on the Dyson Sphere* that we think is the Oort Cloud. *I mean... have you seen us? I wouldn't let us out either.
You’re all wrong. There was a hyper-advanced alien civilisation that spanned multiple solar systems, but they died out millions of years ago. Just watch out when you’re exploring Phoebe, or you might stumble across the tools they fired our way 2 billion years ago - that would be pretty bad for a lot of people… That seems like a bit of an inefficient design, there’s not that much solar radiation all the way out there. Surely you’d get better energy capture if the inner perimeter was closer in - maybe outside of Mars orbit, or just outside the asteroid belt in order to avoid any collisions.
That was by design - it had to be far enough away to keep us guessing. If we could see it easily and had definitive proof of aliens entities working to contain us it would just unite us for a common cause and that's the last thing they want to happen. Bunch o crazy ****ers like us working together? They'd have to call in the exterminators.
I'm pretty sure that the Roswell aliens were coming to serve us notice that we'd been banned from galactic society for nuking ourselves a couple of years previously. Chances are they got shot down by order of some gung-ho Air Force General
