Imagine for a moment that sometime soon, some governments offer us proof positive that there really, truly are alien spacecraft flying around in our atmosphere, & that this has been this case for a long time. Now imagine we have no way to contact them, & nothing to do but wait.
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Say it comes out that we've known about these craft since the dawn of aviation. Then we're looking at some ~100yrs of some people on earth knowing about them & it not making any difference to anything here. We could go another 100yrs like that but w/ all ppl knowing about them.
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I could imagine my grandkids growing up in a world where UFOs are definitely real, & we have some great photos & video of some of them, & hard data on their capabilities, but that's it. That's the whole story. We know they're real & from elsewhere, & that's all there is.
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I could certainly see some kind of disclosure scenario where I go to my grave knowing meaningfully as much about the UFO phenomenon as my great-grandkids will ever know, beyond maybe a few more details of newer sightings with newer sensors.
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If their tech really is centuries ahead of ours, then it seems perfectly possible & even reasonable that they may not engage with us directly until we get closer to peer status with them... which would (definitionally) take centuries.
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Like, if we have to actually chase & capture one of these crazy things first, before we get their attention, we'd surely be a few generations away from really knowing what the heck is going on up there.
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I guess my main thought here is that if these are alien craft that have been here for a long time (millennia, even?), then this will be yet another thing we add to the already long list of mysteries we as a species are trying to science about. Another multigenerational project.
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There's a nice Soviet sci-fi book, Roadside Picnic, where the premise is that aliens visit earth but don't bother trying to communicate, and we're stuck trying to reverse engineer their discarded equipment and garbage after they go
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