So there are aliens, just maybe not in the direction that is popularly assumed

There are subjective experiences that people characterize as "aliens". And the more people talk about aliens, the more exposure there is to the idea of aliens, which leads to more people describing a certain kind of subjective experience as "aliens".

Subjective experience of something some people characterize as aliens is real (as in: people genuinely have an experience). Does not mean aliens exist in consensus reality.

Incidence of alien sighting and abduction stories have high correlation with the airing of movies featuring those themes. Notice that aliens only ever look like how a film depicted it first?

There are aliens, 100%. Statistically there must be, if only .000001% of planets could support life, that’d still be millions of planets in the universe that have it.

But…. none of them have ever visited earth. Space is too big of a place, it’s too empty, and life on earth is too young.

Aliens are just Bigfoots that come from space.

I went through this/a similar rabbit hole in my preteen years and I found Raelism, lol. 😅

"Raëlism teaches that an extraterrestrial species known as the Elohim created humanity using their advanced technology. An atheistic religion, it holds that the Elohim have historically been mistaken for gods. It claims that throughout history the Elohim have created 40 Elohim/human hybrids who have served as prophets preparing humanity for news about their origins. Among them are The Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad, with Raël himself the 40th and final prophet." - Wikipedia