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Comment by perardi | Hacker News Reader

I know it’s fun to jump to aliens…

…but c’mon, people. Occam’s Razor time. There are a lot of options to exhaust before to we get to extraterrestrial intelligence. Just because we can’t explain this doesn’t mean its aliens. It’s a hell of a leap, bordering on religious faith, to credit this to some alien species crossing the vast lightyears of space and time to bounce around some metal spheres.

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One option I like is that a water-dwelling species on our planet is sending out probes. Why now is explained by climate change heating the oceans. It explains why probes are visible, they aren’t trying hard to hide or not good at it. It doesn’t explain how good they are at flight, but maybe they discovered anti-gravity and wonder why we haven’t. It even explains why government hides it, since we wouldn’t believe it, and they don’t know what to do.

I would expect advanced aliens to hide completely or be very obvious.

a...secret water-dwelling species, who has achieved high technology without being seen?

Not sure why this is downvoted. We are supposed to be on a forum where the majority here are people trained on science and engineering. If a rational argument as the one above gets downvoted in HN, well, I can only imagine what the rest of the society (who doesn’t even hold a degree) thinks about this kind of topic.

David Fravor, Ryan Graves, Alex Dietrich and the other pilots have described what they say. Are they just wrong about everything they think they saw?

I phrased what I wrote purposefully.

I did not deny there are some objects out there acting in ways we can’t explain.

Now explain why we should immediately jump to aliens.

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