[Gargamel]

I hate those "unexplained" shows. I watch them every now and then if they come on after something I have been watching, but even fox news looks at them and says "dang, that's a lot of spin".

If you just apply Occam's razor, then it's all very simple.

But why haven't we made contact yet? IE, the Fermi Paradox. There's a few scenarios:

1) They don't exist. Given the number of scenarios and environments that life has been found to exist, I find it highly unlikely. With the amount of exoplanet's estimated in our own galaxy, yet alone the universe, the odds are life exists in many locations. On a philosophical level, I don't like this, as it negates the need to even look.

2) They haven't evolved their technology to sufficient level. While this is possible, it's highly unlikely. Our technological boom has only taken a couple thousand years, depending on when you start counting. That's not even a blink of an eye cosmologically. Maybe we are the first to start exploring and studying space, but I doubt it, the odds are vastly against it.

3) Physics prevents direct contact over such long distances. This may be possible, with warp drive and other FTL travel and communication forever remaining in science fiction, never becoming fact. But again, we can't know unless we try, repeatedly.

4) They are refraining from contact. This doesn't make much sense to me. If they are operating to something similar to Star Trek's Prime Directive, then we are clearly at a point technologically where we are no longer protected by it. We are actively looking for life out there. If they are hiding for nefarious reasons, then it makes some sense, but not much. If they can travel that far, and not be easily detected, then we are obviously not a threat to them. Yes, the element of surprise is a thought, but even without it, what could we do in the mean time?