> Also, it would be trivial to avoid detection in our own solar system. Duck behind a moon or planet, or just quietly float in the blackness of space, and no earthling will ever see you.
Feels like we're approaching a God of the gaps scenario here, but with aliens.
This parallel is no coincidence. As of yet, there is no empirical evidence for space aliens existing. What do you call it when people believe in things for which there is no empirical evidence?
Comparing "God-of-the-gaps" to the UAP/UFO Phenomenon only makes sense if there is abundant, first-hand evidence for God that goes back several generations at least, is seen in numerous, opposing human-cultures and only can be ignored by debunking paradigms that vacillate wildly between a smug misunderstanding of pop-epistemology and the deeply, irrationally conspiratorial.
Feels like we're approaching a God of the gaps scenario here, but with aliens.