Do you trust your government when it comes to other forms of life?

[thekitchensink]

Acevil said:

superchunk said:

Acevil said:

What if you don't believe in other forms of life visiting earth?

Not to be rude, but ... then you're simply naive.

There is WAAAAAAAAAYYYYY too many stars and planets out there for there to be no other intelligent life and a great number of those are millions of years older than Earth. Therefore, there is absolutely no way other life couldn't have progressed to the point where it was capable of travel between the areas within a Galaxy and probably between Galaxies.

We have been visited throughout all of Earth's existence and thankfully, non have been hostile. Hopefully, we'll get to the point where we not only can travel like that but also not be so war minded and conquer those we meet who are below our capabilities.

I'm not doubting life outside of Earth. I am just very doubtful that we really had contact with them. If that makes me naive, so be it. 

Just because we saw them doesn't necessarily mean they actually landed on Earth, though.  We see for millions of miles when we look up at the sky, so we have no idea how far away these objects really are.