Well this one came a gutza.
As you know WW we have form,not willing to restart it, but waiting for your statement of the truth in it.
Know the wait will be eternal, however UNKIND posts changes nothing.
You put a very real question with some merit in it.
In time we will talk much of this, humanity that is.
Maths see, counting the trillions of planets maths says we are not alone.
Do not take it to heart good subject.

I'm sure the ALP policy makers are from another planet. They have been since about 1972. The Greens most likely came down in the last meteorite shower.

With modern technology a lot of things can be photo-shopped so even real pictures of UFO's don't carry much weight.Lights flashing across the sky is not proof of a superior intelligence.I've seen no good close up shots of these craft nor real evidence of alien existnce.

If they are here they must be very advanced because they must be able to either travel faster than the speed of light or be capable of time travel.

You'd better hope that they are nice tolerant aliens because humans on this planet are pretty stupid,selfish,cruel and destructive.What have we done to our less intelligent primate relatives and to our own humanity?

Photo shopped, a lot of that goes on with u tube.
The universe is where the good dead go, or was that all b/s.
I suppose if we are hear, there is not much stopping another form of intelligent life being somewhere else.
The voyager 1 & 2 are still going after something like 40 + years. And still in contact with us earthlings. Although the signal takes something like 17 hours to reach earth. That was the satellites with a picture of a man and woman on board, just in case it got apprehended. It is now passing through the last frontier. In a few more years, it will be in an area that no one knows what to expect.
So if there is someone out there they must be some considerable distance away.

Arjay,

The British government had a department to record ufo sightings over a 50 year time span, so obviously they felt a need to investigate the reports of sightings.

America also had operation Blue Book.

In 1952 the sightings over Washington D.C. made headlines in the newspapers, accompanied by photos. These sightings were also observed by many people, and Truman ordered an immediate investigation.

In an effort to suppress panic when the report went public, the explanation given to the public was that there had been an inversion layer which distorted views of a normal sky.

Many ufo reports have been personal accounts [cranks had a field day], but there have been reports made many times of unexplained sightings by pilots and other credible witnesses.

Many billions of dollars have been spent in an effort to discover if there is life other than on our own planet.
Yes, you're right, we're all the things you have stated- could anything top that?

579,

Think it's good that we are trying to establish whether life exists elsewhere, and are not limited to only thinking about our own planet.

Who can deny how many exciting possibilities our tentative thrusts beyond earth may reveal?

Maybe we need to occasionally to give thought to matters beyond our own sphere. Expand our thinking as we expand our horizons.

At the moment we are limited by a lack of means to quickly overcome distance, but many different ideas to redress this are already in the experimental stage. After all, it has only taken us one century to progress enough to put men on the moon, and growth is exponential, so imagine where we could be be in one more century.