Look, I came to the simplest conclusion that we are surrounded by intelligent (way more ancient and advanced) life.
It think the solution to the dilemma is :
The universe is very old therefore in some galaxies and some parts of the universe, many civilizations evolved to adapt to life in space way before we started being humans.
They made their own adaptation possible with technology, they are not fully biological anymore, they have modified their DNA and have added multiple nanotechnological features to overcome the constraints of life in space.
Space is litterally their biosphere, they don’t need planets, they have space stations, motherships, lunar bases, underground bases, underwater bases, etc…
They don’t have to “reach” Earth because they are already all around the area, probably since millions of years.
We just evolved inside their biosphere as you would expect ants to start a colony, in your backyard.
That explains a lot actually like for example why they don’t need to invade us, or why they study us, or why they care about nuclear energy and atomic bombs.
If your backyard’s ant colony starts to make little explosions or starts slowly polluting part of your backyard, you sure would pay more attention to them.
Now, at this stage you won’t yet communicate with them because the threat is not sufficiently considerable, but you sure have to keep an eye on them.
They don’t make open contact with us because one camp could use this arrival against the other as an excuse (for example a terrorist group or a government could decide to use a biological weapon and blame it on the aliens spreading new diseases).
Now they made it clear to the military that they are watching all their moves. The hope for retroengineering hopefully made it all a multitrillion dollar secret and that could have been something the aliens didn’t expect to happen or something that they carefully planned.
My theory also assumes that they have the help of very powerful AI and that they need to feed this AI with real time data in order to simulate and predict possible outcomes as we do with the weather forecast.
They also have a myriad of robots/drones of different sizes that behave like sentient beings and can manage multiple tasks (like data collection).
There are multiple civilizations, some of them cohabit this same area, the more ancient and advanced one is the one that establishes the rules.
This latter is so advanced that they protect all the others from strangers of other realms and from one another. They act rational and cold as would the military do, no place for romanticism, they have objectives, they act according to the objectives.
There is lot of History going on around us, we just started to become aware of it and we are merely a detail of this great History of intelligent life.
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