[panoply]

As someone who has used 5-MeO-DMT several times, taken copious amount of "magic" mushrooms consisting of psilocybin, baeocystin and psilocin compounds I can only subscribe to the idea that our perception of "aliens" can only be viewed in altered states of consciousness while under the influence of psychedelics. Even in these states it's impossible to describe or comprehend what it is you are visualising and experiencing.

We as humans tend to think of ourselves as these all mighty and knowing species and the truth is if aliens did exist having us comprehend their state of existence would be like us trying to explain to an ant colony that they are ants and they live in a world where people still use the jQuery framework.

[some_account]

Humans only think that way because that's how we get programmed. Science tells us how things are, and we don't have the skills or technical means to verify. Everything from special magical pictures of planets coming from special magical telescopes or spaceships that only nasa has access to... It all adds up to the public being passive spectators and believing it all.