Its been wild to me to see people start to grapple with the evidence. Good to know the thought of life elsewhere has a long pedigree.
What evidence is there of aliens that people are starting to grapple with?
https://apnews.com/article/ufos-uaps-congress-whistleblower-...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/former-intel-official-o...
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/navy-officer-support...
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sch...
The problem here is that rebuttals like this: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/analysis-whistleblower...
>>> As a scientist, I’m trained to be skeptical, and I know that most UFO sightings have mundane explanations. Visual evidence is also notoriously difficult to interpret, and even the dramatic Navy videos have been debunked.
And that's allowed to convince people this is all nonsense, there's no evidence, just hearsay. The problem is the two pilots who went before congress to testify about the 2004 Nimitz videos released to the NYT in 2017 said they were dealing with these contacts for 2 weeks. A US carrier battle group with full adversarial radar (AN/SPY-1) was tracking an anonymous highspeed phenomena during exercises but all that was ever released were a pair of gun camera videos.
Wheres the radar data?
You said:
> Its been wild to me to see people start to grapple with the evidence
But there is no evidence. There is a single person claiming there is evidence but that it's suppressed and he cannot provide it, and that "the government" has killed to suppress this evidence.
I'm sorry... this has all the hallmarks of a (bad) conspiracy theory.
> Wheres the radar data?
Before we jump to conclusions about aliens, let's remember that "UFO" doesn't mean extraterrestrial intelligence, and also, that we must do an effort to explain any phenomenon in ordinary terms before reaching for the extraordinary of ETs visiting our planet.
Even "I cannot explain this particular phenomenon" is not a free pass for ETs. "Secret weapons program" is still more likely, and that's just one possible explanation.
Thank you for your quick beacon of reason vs my wild speculation while reading accounts of the last 5 years. I'm glad we can easily offhandedly establish this sounds like a conspiracy.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, of the sort you first claimed people are coming to terms with.
Unfortunately, there's nothing of that sort in any of your links.
> The plurality of worlds debates provided wonderful opportunities to make definitive pronouncements without the inconvenience of providing solid evidence: after all, it was impossible to be proved wrong.