Yes but what if I want to believe, man! Like Mulder in X-Files, did you not see his office poster?!
Jokes aside, does it even matter at this point? People will still remain sceptical regardless of how clear media is. This sort of thing always did and always will require quite literally beings or robots landing on the front lawn of whatever PM or president's house and then televising the event for people to go "oh ok fine"
On the other side of the coin I give you the most recent Event Horizon interview with Avi Loeb, a person who people have taken out of context plenty of times but he's a well regarded academic and scientist who actively runs projects with his students at Harvard working on getting the science data however they can so that the data can be analysed and peer reviewed and shared publicly. The govs don't seem to be forthcoming with sharing the data they have though, even though the military publicly state they have no idea what the flying things are but don't consider them a threat (just this past week) but have started to call them "drones" now all the same. If they are drones, then why not shoot them down since the origin is not known and they are hovering above nuclear sites?
For ref, Loeb doesn't believe stuff like Oumuamua was an alien intelligence craft floating through our solar system, but that it is a weird object and more data is needed to determine its origin and classification, because not long after this was spotted, another object was spotted by the same telescopes that did not get media attention, which turned out to be a piece of NASA rocket debris cruising through the solar system which was only confirmed after the data was analysed.
The bottom line is something is going on, and it's been building up the last few years, nobody outside of those military circles knows exactly what yet it's all a matter of national security even though the latest incidents they say pose no known threat... So without the scientific data being shared, everything else is just either the word of mouth from former officials from these circles, or unclear/clear media leaked online only for those account holders or re-sharers to be deleted off the internet within a day.
Also consider that on the ISS right now NASA has observed organisms that have grown out there in space and formed colonies on parts of the space station based on the conditions the station has provided them. That means we have helped in the creation of actual alien organisms out in space in a short space of time. May of these were found to be mutating and resistant to drugs so perfect for studying:
Thirteen strains of E. bugandensis, a bacterium notorious for being multi-drug resistant, were isolated from the ISS. Study findings indicate under stress, the ISS isolated strains were mutated and became genetically and functionally distinct compared to their Earth counterparts. The strains were able to viably persist in the ISS over time with a significant abundance. E. bugandensis coexisted with multiple other microorganisms, and in some cases could have helped those organisms survive.
In a new scientific paper funded by an Ames Space Biology grant, Principal Investigator Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory strains
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We have lietral "aliens" on our space station, and people have a hard time fathoming that another species out there given billions of years might have found a way to send their creations over here to expolore and report back on potential planets of habitat
I keep an open mind, but at the same time I also want to see the data of course and will update my mind once data shows what's what, which is what science is all about surely.
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