re: The alien roll out by “the powers that be” is going very well.

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There is pretty good evidence now that we are not from this earth. No bones ever recovered of a half human, half ape creature.

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Does anyone want to tell him?

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Because they make themselves invisible like Big Foot.

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Bigfoot doesn't make itself invisible. Bigfoot makes itself blurry.

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The problem is that our level of technology, we can barely escape our own atmosphere. Interstellar travel is a pipe dream. If an alien civilization has the technological ability to reach us, we would be as insignificant as ants so why would they even bother?

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I have no dog in this fight, but that's not really a valid argument.

Who knows what we have the tech to do? Maybe it's already available, but just not imagined or implemented correctly?
I say that, because the other day I was watching some show about the ancient Greeks. Turned out some guy had made steam-powered toys, something like 2500 years ago. Literal steam engine, water in a container boiled to make something move. A toy.
It wasn't until the late 1700's, 2 thousand years later, that people figured out steam engines could do all manner of things in a way that would benefit civilization immensely, and that ushered in the Industrial Age.

Now imagine we took that step 2 thousand years earlier, and science and technology followed at the pace it has since 1800. Gasoline and diesel within a couple centuries. Need for communication to keep up with transportation distances; we've gone from wired telegraphs with Morse code, to wifi streaming of visual images that you can view in your phone (a handheld device) in a similarly short period of time.

Our scifi concepts of space flight have progressed from being fired out of a cannon (Verne), to rocket ships, to hyperspace/wormhole travel. We're in the real-life point where rockets are mundane now- there's zero doubt we could travel to Mars, or anywhere else in the solar system if we wanted to go. Maybe that wormhole generator is just around the corner, and we just haven't seen it yet? Because we don't know what to look for?
But if/when we do figure it out, in a couple hundred years the amazing things we do will be mundane to the people living in that time.

All that to say- a civilization capable of reaching us across vast distances might be no more advanced over us, than we are now vs the Civil War era.

And more importantly, the species might not be any more evolved than us.
Consider= you take Ben Franklin... or for that matter Plato, drop him in the US today, and give him a crash course in language, basic history and technological innovations, and in a couple years, do you think he can prosper in our world? I'd say yes.

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Bruh, we got smart arse people on this planet studying ants. We have whole shows about it too that people lap up.

We actually have some of the smartest people on this planet doing nothing but studying bacteria.

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we aren't folding space and crossing galaxies to study ants

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Bruh, we got smart arse people on this planet studying ants. We have whole shows about it too that people lap up.

We actually have some of the smartest people on this planet doing nothing but studying bacteria.

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we aren't folding space and crossing galaxies to study ants

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That's because we aren't folding space and crossing galaxies currently
If we could, and we FOUND something, you bet your goddam arse we would study the shite out of it. Organic compounds that look promising, yep.
Something as advanced as algae? Hell yeah.
A planet with any fauna would be incredibly exciting.

Now tell me you found another planet with diverse fauna, and one of them is using complex mechanical tools, is transmitting data via the electromagnetic spectrum, is displaying a working knowledge of subatomic particles (nuclear reactors etc), has their planet ringed with satellites and is sending probes into space-we'd shite a brick.

The world would go nuts, no matter how advanced we are.

And trying to steal tailgating tents in BFE!

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Yoda LIVES!

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Dude! Spoilers!

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What I can say with a fair amount of certainty is that for 70 years our government has tried to obfuscate and confuse the public about its knowledge of the subject.
I'm not sure if the current investigations by AARO and NASA are more of the same and we are just replaying BlueBook or not.

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Think about it. Many UAP/UFO sightings happen around military bases. The alien/conspiracy people think that the government is hiding information about the subject.

Let's just suppose that the military doesn't really want to come out and say the equivalent, "oh you conspiracy people, you guessed it, that is our top secret, advance military weapon, but we're now going to stop keeping it a secret anymore because you saw something and you want us to explain it instead of keeping it a secret."

So, if the government denies that anything unusual happens, the conspiracy nuts then respond, "See! They are keeping secrets! It's a conspiracy!"

Buuuuuuut, all the military has to do to get the consipracy freaks on their side is to say, "We're not saying its aliens, but we are going to have a commission study it, you know, just in case[wink wink]."

Then the military gets to keep secret stuff secret and leverage all the conspiracy idiots into just being themselves, scaring off any legitimate scrutiny for fear of being lumped in with the conspiracy wingnuts. Military win win.

Even if whay you saw wasn't something of military origin, the military/government can just lump in potential sightings of military origin with all the other "alien" noise. The alien conspiracy crazies are doing so much work for the military's keeping of legitimately kept secrets that somebody, somewhere has to be smiling everytime they see anything about aliens. And because the alien conspiracy morons will never, ever listen to reason, science, sociology or anything else that undermines their belief, there's little chance of that cover ever ceasing to work.