Clever way of making outrageous claims without actually saying anything.
Agreed that Bigelow did not move the ball.
Here is the way I look at it.
What do ants think about humans? What are we to them?
We probably exist as “natural phenomenon” like earthquakes and thunderstorms and floods.
In my view that is how humans would react to aliens that were “here”.
There would be nothing to make sense of—it would appear to be background “noise”.
Because—the ants and the humans both make the same mistake—they believe they are at the top of nature’s pecking order for intelligence.