My grandmother and grandad both recalled seeing what they and many other courting couples saw, one night when they were strolling along their local esplanade, along the River Clyde, in Scotland in 1938.
They described seeing a number of lit disk objects, flying silently up the river in a formation, and then performing a disappearing maneuver which defied gravity, air friction, and centrifugal forces, as far as anyone could tell.
In those days, before even jets, everyone instantly identified those things as alien technology.
I believed them, and still do now, long after they have gone.
Add to that now something fundamental we need to accept, that the pinnacle of our aerospace achievements has already been and gone, we peaked around the seventies with moon walks, space shuttles, and supersonic commercial flights.
Now all forms of commercial flight are struggling, at least in the neoliberal, colonial West, as is all business, if we are realistic we should realise we will never even save our own planet, far less go and conquest others, as long as we continue with colonialism, it is ultimately unsustainable, we are kidding ourselves on if we think any rich billionaires are going to achieve more than our old governments did in the past. The billionaires make promises which can never be redeemed, dangling carrots, to receive yet more investor funds.
Of course we were warned about this by nearly all religions which have extraterrestrial mythology, but we ignored.
How did they know? Because they've seen it, over and over, many attempts to create successful species, we are just another one that ignored the guidance and are now in process of failing.
They were interested in us until it was plain to them we would not be successful.
Now they've disappeared and our profit driven system has all but wiped out all evidence of them ever even being here.
I like to hope we are not too late to turn things round and surprise them.
That is why I write in Medium suggesting the solution I see, "Kardashev Money".
But sometimes it is hard to retain that hope.
Everyone is still way too fixated with trying to make profit, building empires that don't do anything good at all, just stroke their egos, whilst destroying the planet, and economy.
That is my opinion of things.