[zackees]

Funny how none of the solutions to the drake equation include the possibility that a government would hide evidence of alien life.

It’s literally more probable that all life in the universe dies than our government would cover up contact, according to the media.

[midasuni]

You assume mass competence of different governments in different countries over a dozen administrations. That’s a mass conspiracy theory, one which seems pretty much impossible.

[zackees]

And with all the media stories about alien life with laughable grainy footage of people walking in stilts and anal probes, what signal would you use to be able to determine what the "truth" is on alien contact? Would it be "your gut feeling"?

There's literally so much mainstream disinformation in the UFO space that there is zero chance that someone casually be able to figure out what's fact from fiction. The noise is so high that the signal is effectively buried.

So I disagree with your assessment that the truth would be viral. Most of the human population has already been inoculated to a viral UFO truth narrative.

[wincy]

I mean, it makes sense. If we had definitive proof that alien life existed a large portion of society would go absolutely bonkers. I'm pretty sure I would.