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One thing that never quite sat well with me in the UAP/UFO discourse is the cognitive dissonance between:
On the one hand, an alien civilization that is presumably so much more advanced than us that it has mastered interstellar travel, most likely with unmanned probes;
And, on the other hand, helpless little grey creatures that keep crashing their stereotypical saucer and getting caught on camera by everyone and their grandmother.
We are a young species (200–300K years of Homo sapiens vs 15B years since the Big Bang). Any other intelligent life form out there is, in all likelihood, *much* older than us. It’s difficult to fathom what humanity might look like barely a few centuries out, let alone millennia or millions of years.
So, extrapolating to aliens, it almost feels presumptuous that we, the puny rock dwellers who only recently discovered fire, have not only sighted but even recovered such advanced tech.
I acknowledge that this line of reasoning is not much more than an appeal to intuition, and thus not a rational justification to reject the observations made to date 6 replies
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