I'm just not one of those people who can read UFO solutions into the Bible. God's Creation is very large and magnificent. The Bible gives absolutely no reason to believe that Earth is the only planet God seeded with sentience. The Bible simply isn't a Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Astronomy textbook or instruction manual.
Stop boxing God into your very tiny perspective.
You believe what you want
I’ll do the same
Now that verse is for just before Armageddon.
What happens before Ezekiel 38 isn’t as clear.