UAPs are a real phenomena. Some UAPs display properties that cannot be explained by our understanding of science. Interstellar travel is impossible in any meaningful sense. Many UAPs react to human observers and exhibit erratic behavior and movement. UAPs with consistent features and behaviors have been witnessed for millennia across human cultural lines. The most likely explanation (in my opinion) is that these entities are extra dimensional rather than extraterrestrial. Not to get too new age, but anyone with a lot of psychedelic experience has tapped into aspects of the collective unconscious or even witnessed entities separate from their own consciousness. I don’t think UAPs are here to take data or anything like that. To me, they are an inherent part of a world that we have not yet been able to detect. They are tied to us and seem to focus more on fucking with humans/coexisting with them rather than to experiment or invade.

I always think of the metaphor of the pigeon and a newspaper. A pigeon is pecking it’s way along a sidewalk when a newspaper falls to the ground in front of it. The pigeon can see the newspaper, can step on it, can recognize that it is, in fact, there, but it would never, even with thousands of years to examine the “data” from the newspaper, be able to interpret what it means. These beings are so alien and incomprehensible to us that even if they laid out all of their motivations and goals there’s a really, really, good chance that we would be the equivalent of that pigeon on the sidewalk. We see flashing lights above the desert that react to our movements or the tic tac buzzing it’s way around the water and we’re left in a state of awe and wonder. Maybe that’s all they want, but it’s more likely that their motivations will be totally incomprehensible forever.