“No one thinks these things are “extraterrestrial.” That’s just your strawman.”
The actual strawman is the “Alien Technology” story. I’m the skeptic. Skepticism does not require a strawman.
Actually, the good Colonel quoted in the posted article states plainly that we are interacting with extraterrestrials euphemistically called “non human intelligence”
You will notice that, in my comment, I put the term “extraterrestrial” in quotes.