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LinkPizza posted...

I mean, if you read the bible, the angels were aliens... No proof... But it's the only way the bible makes any sense...

Occam's Razor provides an even more believable answer. Namely, humans are really, really good at making shit up.

And self-delusion.

Modern psychology has actually shown us just how easy it is to get the human brain to hallucinate, how common false-memory formation is, and how easy it is to perpetuate mass-hysteria. Even what "type" of aliens people claim to see in recent times can be traced to documented sociological phenomenon - people didn't start to see "little green men" and "flying saucers" until after Ray Palmer's fiction about them became popular (he's also likely the source of "Men in Black"). People didn't start seeing "Greys" until after Close Encounters and Communion came out.

People see what they expect to see. Which is why people in the past saw fairies, or angels and demons, or gods. And why people who go looking for the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, or the Jersey Devil often tend to "see" them (always just far enough off in the distance), but never find anything resembling evidence.

Sure, it's easy to just equate every folklore or mythological story into "Aliens!" the way the hacks at Ancient Aliens do (though even then they don't get the original story right half the time, because their research team sucks and they're willing to lie to make the facts fit the theory rather than making the theory fit the facts). But that's not really how the universe works.

There may be aliens in the universe. If so, odds are they don't even know we're here, let alone have visited in secret. Or are a constant presence running around and influencing all of human history yet still somehow remaining relatively undetected overall.

Humans are really good at making shit up. It's basically one of our racial bonuses.