You have a choice. You believe Albert Einstein and the General Theory of Relativity. Or you can believe that UFO’s are mechanical and biological entities that originated in place many light years away. (That is the distance, almost unimaginable, that something travelling at the speed of light would cover in one year). You can’t believe both without deluding yourself. There is another, more rational explanation for these observations.
Isn't your thinking a bit linear in concluding that space must be traveled as the crow flies?
And not to jump to the conclusion that we are looking at aliens here but, if we were, mightn't they be from another dimensions instead of another planet?
Your repetitive concern (from thread to thread) about linear space travel is like a man in San Fran in 1900 insisting that the only way West from NYC will always and only be by train and coach.
We don't fully understand the physical world. Our own models don't yet properly describe what we observe (ex. the Two Slit Experiment). Imagine how advanced we look technicaly to someone from say 500 years ago. Now imagine there are civilizations out there 500 or 5,000 years more advanced than us. I would speculate they may have uncovered a few things we've let to learn.
And you are deluding yourself if you believe Einstein’s ToR is the last discovery on time and space.
You are making assumptions based upon what we currently know, not upon what we will know 300 years in the future.
Before you go on another bender, consider another Einstein quote: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
Einstein was right about the physical universe. But there is a much more than just the physical. You can find evidence for that in the bible.
One can believe Einstein and believe in the Theory of Relativity so long as one can define theory as something other than the final word. The science is NOT settled. If it's ever decided that the science is settled then scientist can all pack it in and learn to code.
Or you could chose to imagine that some ocean-based entity evolved a high civilization here on Earth a billion (pick any large number) years ago and has been here ever since. Since most of the surface of the Earth remains unexplored - even some of the dry portions - this remains a possibility. New species are being found every year.
No need for aliens or extra dimensional beings. No need to believe or disbelieve Einstein
Make things simple not complex