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From everything we know interstellar travel in less than generational time scales is all but impossible.

The only thing that is more improbable from our current knowledge of physics is...travel back in time.

Occam's razor: The explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct.

So we have three possibilities.

A foreign power

Aliens

Time Travel.

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The boring reality is that it is the first one. A foreign power.

If we cracked time travel then it's equally possible some other advanced race did too and traveling long distance isn't an issue if you can manipulate time. Still could be aliens.

Yeah, it's wild how everyone goes "aliens" when the expansion of the universe sets the vast majority of it as inaccessible without FTL travel, our own signals of life haven't reached very far yet, and the same underlying tech to travel FTL would also mean traveling in time.

So we have things flying around in formations similar to our own tech and behaviors but seemingly more advanced and showing considerable interest in humans.

Time travel at least deserves to be on the discussion table as much or more than aliens.

I like this idea, but it doesn’t hold up either. We know that time travel is technically possible, but only in one direction - you can only move forward in time, never backwards. So, if a craft left earth and set out into that vast ocean of space only to return after a good long time of visiting other worlds, those aboard that craft would return to an earth that has experienced much more time passing. To those on the ship, it would appear that the ship really wouldn’t have been gone for that long, while to those of us poor saps stuck in the gravity well, a metric crap ton of time would have passed on earth before we’d ever see that ship again.

A simple guide to time travel

Edit: After thinking about this some more, the exception to this would be if a craft left earth tens of thousands of years ago. If that were the case, they could be returning now to a world completely unknown to them, which would absolutely warrant an observation-only kind of reaction. However, we don’t have a whole lot of evidence for a lost-in-time advanced society. There’s a couple of interesting things that have popped up in history, sure, but nothing to suggest a civilization advanced enough to have achieved space travel, so again, though it’s not outside the realm of possibility, it’s extremely unlikely.

If they could do that why do they get caught? They would presumably know from the historical records us seeing them.

Notice that “aliens” is in quotes. The modern way to talk about this stuff among those who follow it is to reference it as a phenomenon and not necessarily aliens specifically.

I find the UFO community to mostly be insufferable, but there does seem to be something to all of this. Either there is some super advanced tech in the hands of humans, or something else is going on.

It does not seem like there is a simple answer. And there might be multiple answers.

Or the third option they're not allowed to say, which is they're ours.

You should have kept reading the article. "But Kirkpatrick’s comments, which come as he is about to retire after a 27-year defense and intelligence-focused career, are more intriguing because he also says that “none” of the hundreds of military UFO reports analyzed by his office recently “have been positively attributed to foreign activities.”"

What? It’s a real part of the government and real laws are currently being made about it.

This isn’t a “local farmer saw something weird” report.