[beaned]

Right, like what would be their motivation for exclusively interacting with governments rather than, say, landing in Times Square?

I guess a counter thought would be that they haven't actually tried to interact with anyone at all, maybe only observe, but the armed forces/governments are the only element of our species with the ability to detect and retrieve them when they make mistakes.

[neuronic]

But they never make mistakes above NYC or Berlin, or anywhere with a bunch of social media + phone users around.

Just somewhere in the desert conveniently close to AFBs and other restricted areas.

[beaned]

A good point. A couple thoughts here might be:

1. They make exceptionally few mistakes overall anyway;

2. Perhaps it is the interaction between armed force technology and their vehicles which creates problems for them (whether intentional or not from our side);

3. The majority of our land surface area is not inhabited at any given moment. Maybe these drones, or whatever they are, do not even care about life here, and are not particularly attracted to cities or people, and are statistically more likely to fail out of reach of most populated areas just because that's what our geographic distribution is like.

[operatingthetan]

Maybe our devices are easily hacked by their technology. E.g. the phones just don't see them or images of craft are removed from photos.