No:
Let’s not be silly here, team. I love Star Wars and Aliens in the Attic as much as the next guy, but you know what else I love? Rational thinking.
Let’s consider, for one, the sheer vastness of the universe. It’s probably infinite in scale, and even if it’s not, it may as well be to us. The likelihood of any alien civilization knowing of our existence is thus miniscule, and even if they are aware of our existence, what would they achieve by entering our atmosphere? Surveilling us, perhaps? If that’s the case, why not do that from space? I refuse to believe that they have the technological capability to traverse the universe but not the technological means to spy on us from beyond our atmosphere.
Furthermore, so much of the supposed ‘evidence’ of extraterrestrial activity on Earth are things like the Egyptian pyramids, crop circles, Stonehenge, Nazca Lines, etc; which all have perfectly reasonable scientific and cultural explanations behind them. Also, again, what would any of this achieve? Are aliens just chill art enthusiasts that travel from system to system, building random structures as they please? That’s dumb. It’s also stripping the impressive human beings who made these marvels of their well-deserved clout.
Area 51 is something that I find really cool as a concept, but do they have actual alien spacecrafts and biological samples? I doubt it. I’m obviously not the first person to make this point, but I think it’s one that needs to be stressed here: if aliens are so advanced in their intergalactic navigation, then how in the frick are they crash landing on Earth so easily?! If you’re an alien who perhaps isn’t the most confident flying saucer pilot, then why would you blast off to the depths of space, pull up on Earth, and then head straight for the ground with a catastrophic collision?
I am sure there’s got to be some other life out there in our ever-expanding universe, but to think that they’ve not only found us, but have also paid us visits, is quite ridiculous.
Yes:
Absolutely. But let’s get specific. Before diving into this debate, we need to be clear on one thing: the interpretation of what an alien even is. Google tells us that an alien is either a) A foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalised citizen; or b) A being from another world.
So technically, we as humans are all aliens in some context. You travel to another country? Boom – you’re a legal alien. The language we use makes it sound like humans are constantly figuring out who belongs and who doesn’t. It’s like being an “alien” is just a state of unfamiliarity.
But if we move into the second definition (the extraterrestrial one) the convo shifts from legal lingo to the conspiracy and weird taboo zone. Let’s be real: there’s no conclusive PUBLIC scientific evidence that aliens have visited Earth… but I smell bullshit. I mean look at Area 51, what the fuck is going on there? And alien sightings – if we’ve been to the moon, who's to say that they haven't visited us? This whole moon landing thing happened in 1969, wayyyy before AI made that shit all possible. Other things I believe aid the ‘aliens have been to earth’ theory are: Australia’s C.I.A (just think about Pine Gap), deserts (33.3% of land area is desert, weird shit is happening), the Pyramids (where to even begin), orcas (apex predators of the ocean with giant, highly wrinkled brains seeing things we can’t even imagine), and pigeons (high key suss).
Also, in 2019, researchers discovered extraterrestrial organic material in 3.3 billion-year-old ocean sediments near Barberton, South Africa. Literal space dust that helped form early life. So, like... maybe we’re the aliens. Maybe the thing we fear is already us. In conclusion: yes, aliens have visited. Or maybe we’ve evolved from them. Or maybe we are them. Either way, something's up – and it’s not just Elon’s satellites.