That’s why it’s called “faith” ..... and it’s adherents are called believers....
Not science based, not provable....but still a fundamental belief.....
Extraterrestrials are not a belief to be taken on faith, but requires hard scientifically provable facts.....
That’s assuming a ‘nuts-and-bolts’ sort of phenomena.
Some people who have spent decades studying this believe that it’s much more complicated than outer-space guys visiting us in vehicles. Jacques Vallee has said that the phenomena is telling us that we don’t fully understand space/time.
If any element of ‘government’ is hiding something, it’s mainly that they don’t understand it, either.
“Extraterrestrials are not a belief to be taken on faith, but requires hard scientifically provable facts.....”
Until you review the statistics behind it. The numbers show “It must exist because the chances of us being the only life in the universe is statistically impossible”