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A UFO from war.gov/UFO
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Personally, I can only think of two possibilities when it comes to UFOs:
[significantly less likely] Aliens exist, and they're here to study and observe us (what the hell else would they be doing?). No government really knows that much more than the odd photo/rumor, but are cagey about admitting to that ignorance.
It's just hopeful people seeing what they want to see. It seems life on earth is relatively early, cosmologically speaking. Unless we've gotten it very very wrong, 12 billion years is rather young for a universe. There's a lot that has to go right for life to happen. We're probably all there currently is. If there's no way around relativistic limits, we're definitely all there is in practical terms.
2 is an underexplored idea in scifi. There's always ancient species with giant megastructures all over the universe, but we might just be one of the first ones getting into the boat and exploring