If they’re out there, wheres the evidence? The Fermi paradox

So what’s up with the absence of evidence of extraterrestrial existence in the universe?  A question asked by many, coined by physicist Enrico Fermi, that you may have heard referred to as the Fermi paradox.   Although it seems Enrico merely pointed out the controversy between the lack of evidence given and the high likelihood extraterrestrials could exist, it seems that most of the legwork was done by others, specifically Michael H. Hart and Frank J. Tipler.  Michael and Frank expanded on the basic principle of the Fermi Paradox however the question of the paradox still remains. Where’s the evidence? To this, I say, where isn’t the evidence?  

It’s not the mid 1900’s any more.  Have we not seen Ancient Aliens? Alien Documentaries? Roswell New Mexico? The “weather balloon” incident in Los Angeles.  The hundreds of UFO sightings caught on video that flood the internet? There was even a new video on the internet just within the past couple of days, caught off the North Carolina coast, with multiple lights floating over the horizon in the middle of the ocean.  To this, most will just assume people are crazy conspiracy nutjobs. I don’t blame them really, especially when you have people like Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, who appears on the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, with his crazy ass hair. These kinds of people make it extremely easy to discredit anything that might have the possibility of being actual real evidence.  

But what happens when this evidence comes out of the mouth of someone more reputable or credible.  Navy pilots, military ship personnel, sea captains, astronauts. Buzz Aldrin perhaps? There are many accounts of sightings of unidentified flying objects.  Of the more notable cases, posted by NBC news Sept. 19 2019, is where the U.S. Navy released 3 different videos ranging from 2004-2015, known as the “2004 Nimitz Incident” the “Gimbal” video and “Go Fast” video all showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” or  “Anomalous Aerial Vehicles” (AAV’s) as the Navy likes to call them. However, since we cannot confirm what any of these objects are and since we are unable to put any tangible physical evidence in our hands, does this still count as not being evidence? If this is the case, I guess we should refer to multiple religions as paradoxes as well.  For humans, what we cannot hold in our hands or see with our eyes or taste with our tongues can be extremely hard if not impossible to believe.  

I could go on all day with examples of extraterrestrial existence from, just our planet, using hundreds if not thousands of sources but the truth of the matter is, as long as we don’t have a small green man fall from the sky and land in our laps chances are humans will always be skeptical of the existence of extraterrestrial life.  Even if we did have an E.T. fall from the sky (wink wink Roswell), some “man in black” would swoop in and cover it up but that, ladies and gentlemen, is a different topic for a different day.