• StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 hours ago

    Publicly acknowledged as real? Maybe 2 years. Fairly good evidence something was out there, maybe 30- 40 years. The evidence has been good enough to say something is out there, but it was never good enough to say it was more than highly probable. I remember being shocked when there was a Senate hearing about it a while back.

    The idea that aliens might exist goes back a long time though. Here in the US, first major incident I remember was Roswell, back in the 1940’s. There were depictions of strange things going back a lot longer though, vast majority of which can be explained by our modern understanding of science. Some though, not so much.

    And yes, it is a distraction, but at this point I’d have to ask “From what?”. Is this (aliens) important? Doesn’t seem like it at the moment, there are bigger problems. Like the administration ignoring orders of both congress and judges. The Epstine files are one example , DHS’s behavior is another.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      There is only one country that obsesses about this. No, aliens have not visited the US, no, there are not alien spacecraft anywhere near earth.

      The belief in aliens is an inverse correlation to science education.