As a follow-on comment...Stanford (Prof. Garry Nolan) and Harvard (Prof Avi Loeb) are leading the way now with others in the scientific community elbowing each other to climb aboard.
“...the scientific community elbowing each other to climb aboard.”
First, I don’t know squat about aliens, UFOs or ghosts, but know that establishment type scientists / academics have poo poo’d the subject for the past 80 years. Yet as always, the scientific and academic communities don’t give two sh!ts about “science or academics” until the government funds it, then they pile on to the cause like a bunch of rabid ticks on a dog. Gotta get in on that government largesse. No different than the climate change scam.