As a result of your mention of Elizondo’s “somber” comment I did some searches and hit a Reddit UFO discussion on it with over 300 comments.
One of the most interesting comments was this:
“I can mentally handle being a zoo pet, though it would be disturbing to be a Westworld-style construct.
However, being an entirely digital entity created on a whim by a computer superintelligence for some cheap reason of idle scientific curiosity... that would be deeply, profoundly disturbing.”
Just looking at those two scenarios as possible examples—I stick to my original thought—some folks could handle either one, some folks would freak badly, and some folks would just “carry on” as normal.
All we can do is extrapolate from our human experience, even if we stretch our imaginations to their breaking points.
Yet, some of the scientists who have commented on this have said that what we may encounter is nothing--NOTHING--like anything humans can imagine.
Just a glimpse of what they are may absolutely and permanently disorient us by introducing us to worlds that blind us with how different they are and how different reality actually is (i.e., it is not what we think it is).
We think 3 dimensionally, 4 or 5 at best. These beings may be infinitely beyond that.
As I said above, we cannot imagine anything we have never encountered in life.
But what is coming is possibly not even something comprehensible by our brains.
Whatever is coming...it may obliterate all that we've ever known or imagined just introducing itself into our world.
I am intellectually intrigued, but I think we are in for a surprise.