Quite some time ago I was fascinated by the outer space... I've seen the old Enterprise series and read all the writings by Erich van Daeniken and I dove into several conspiracy theories. Who wasn't at some point taken by the idea that we as humans just can't be the top of evolution on the endless spaces possibilities.
For years and decades this was a theme for horror movies, conspiracy theories and nerds. For some days now, UFOs enter the mainstream media worldwide (except in Germany... that's why I am probably a bit late), since an ex pentagon executive claimed that the existence of UFOs have been "proven beyond a reasonable doubt."
source Newsweek
source Express UK
source NY times (sic!)
There are several possibilities:
There a billions of galaxies, billions of stars with a solar system in each of them and billions of earthlike circumstances probably. In an endless universe, there are endless possibilities...
And as we learned on earth alone: life will expand as soon as there is a slight possibility for it. So who are we, to believe that we are the only ones, or even the most evolved ones in the universe?
Well IF it is true, then amazing times will come and not much can be told about it. Possibly new technologies can be adapted and possibly new ways of doing things can be learned. The only thing, I am afraid of, is to loose my freedom, so if "they" come with an ant-like society, we will have to be careful, not to fall back onto totalitarian structures even more than we do now. ( A dystopian bythought: Do THEY need a several degrees higher climate?)
Well, that could be a good thing. This means there is a new form of energy out there, ready to be used for the good of all. Oil and other fossil fuels could become worthless, which would change -mildly said- A LOT. OPEC countries will become unimportant and possibly our holy climate will be saved. Over centuries knowledge has been power and important knowledge has been kept secret until the point where is wasn't possible no more. Is now the time to bring new knowledge to the public? Well... after the JFK files are finally (partly) released, there is not much left of what "the public" wants to know.
Also this could be a very bad thing, meaning there is someone out there with a tech, superior to the nuclear bombs, which could shift the power structures to something we really don't like.
IMHO this is the most reasonable approch. If it's all fake, we will have to ask for the reasons. First the reason why now, then the reason why at all at last the reason who profits from it.
Trump didn't blow up the world, actually he is doing quite fine, even if most won't admit it. ISIS is down, the tax reform is a success, job rates are up, economy is growing, more sexual predators have been looked up in the last year than during the whole Obama administration (sic!) and the world was finally able to see a glimpse of how "news" work as desinformation almost ALL THE TIME, for every partie. Fake news are not the exeption, but the manipulatory RULE.
There is a conspiracy theorie out there, that IF you want to create a worldwide union under one giant government, you'll need either a world war, a giant threat like a natural desaster (climate change) or an alien invasion. Trump didn't work, climate change didn't work... well if there are globalists out there, wanting to install this New World Order, then we have here the "who", the "why now" AND the answer who could profit from it.
@pollux.one