And by aliens I mean, outer space creatures and UFO. For whatever reason all UFO sighting footage looks either fake or like recorded with a Casio keyboard. And I find hard to believe we don’t have any decent footage of them with all the surveillance and technology we have now.
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I like this explanation. I don’t think we can do a lot better than this one at this point.
I think a fun next step is “forget what’s real, I want to write a story with humans interacting with aliens that’s consistent with what we see now.” What do you have to invent to make it work? Nothing really works for me. But stuff like the dark forest is good. I can suspend disbelief enough to enjoy it.
You just have to make it a bit sci fi. Like say it’s the year 2400 or whatever and Earth achieves radio contact with another civilization. Maybe they’re 100 light years away so you’d jump 200 years every time a message is sent and returned. Not sure how you’d tell that story but that’s the most realistic thing I can think of.