I firmly believe that the universe is too large, and the odds too unlikely, to be the only intelligent life form in the vast expanse of what is visible to us. What I am hung up on is the idea that so many people with such (reasonable) distrust for the government will suddenly go Dory (from finding nemo) on the topic (like Tucker did) just because they released a worthless report validating UFO's. Does everyone remember what UFO stands for? Unidentified Flying Objects,
not "Extraterrestrial" Unidentified Flying Objects. This is a forum of logic-oriented people. If another life form were capable of making it here, bare minimum of 4.37 light years away, I bet they would find us quite uninteresting. Any species that can laugh at the speed of light will see us as mere ants and likewise see our resources as insignificant.
78 light-years out, they are just hearing our transmissions from WWII. Fun thought, isn't it? We all should be thankful for the inverse square law though for making our signals of hatred too weak to hear by the best-imagined receivers that far out. If anyone heard us, they are already well familiar with us. However, to think they made their "appearance" that soon after the first nuclear explosions and that soon after the dawn of radio, they would need to be closer than the nearest star system. For that reason, I'll call total bologna.
I have seen crazy stuff though, so if something was here, it was a species in travel passing by here