But they're not keeping quiet. Literally hundreds of reports have been made, ex-military willing to testify before US Congress (Disclosure Project), cryptic com

But they're not keeping quiet. Literally hundreds of reports have been made, ex-military willing to testify before US Congress (Disclosure Project), cryptic comments from ex-astronauts that hopefully in future "the truth will come out" (Armstrong or Aldrin IIRC). Governments have investigated, but perhaps if an advanced civilisation doesn't want to make contact and just wants to observe us then it's difficult to get conclusive proof? And then what? Tell your populace "Hi everyone, we can't keep our skies safe, but don't worry, it's probably OK". There's some odd stuff in some NASA footage you can see for yourself. But now with CGI you probably won't accept any videos you can see on youtube as being real. But this still isn't enough for you because until you actually see one with your own eyes you aren't willing to accept it. That is excellent scepticism. However, we accept a lot of scientific reports without actually running the experiments ourselves... There seems to be a mismatch there. Healthy scepticism is healthy, but barring a "smoking gun" that is unavoidable (i.e. an "Independence Day"/"District 9" scenario) you probably will never believe it. I suggest that's due to conditioning and how the US Gov directed Hollywood to ridicule this sort of thing in the past. If we relax things back to "normal" and view the reports (the volume, quality of sources, corroborating evidence like multiple witnesses, radar confirmation, WW1 Foo fighter reports, etc) then the balance of probabilities seems to lie with "yes, they're here and they've been here a long time", at least for me. I mean the Mahabarata alone does appear to contain an account of nuclear fallout and diagrams of UFOs, and that was written thousands of years ago.