I've been seeing a lot of theories circulating about Elon Musk and aliens lately. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has spoken clearly on Twitter: he believes that, at the moment, we have no concrete evidence that aliens have ever visited Earth. The UFO sighting videos circulating on YouTube? According to Elon Musk, they are too blurry and unconvincing to be taken seriously.

But Elon Musk's reasoning on this topic makes sense. Think about it: almost all of us now own a smartphone with a decent camera. If aliens were really visiting our planet, shouldn't we have thousands of clear testimonies? Instead, what we find online is always poor-quality footage, almost suspiciously vague. Moreover, the distances between star systems are simply enormous— even a hypothetical alien ship would struggle to reach us while keeping the crew alive.

Edward Snowden, the former government whistleblower, said something interesting in an interview with Joe Rogan toward the end of 2019. Despite having access to classified information from the CIA, NSA, and military, he never found convincing proof of aliens on Earth. Yet, he doesn't completely rule out the possibility: he admitted that there’s probably something unexplainable out there.

Things get complicated here. The Pentagon recently released documents and videos of encounters between military pilots and UFOs, acknowledging that these unidentified objects could have extraterrestrial origins. This stance is different from Elon Musk’s and the skeptics’.

Meanwhile, astronomers have scanned millions of stars searching for signs of life, without finding anything concrete. There remains this tension between the cosmic silence we observe and the sightings that the government itself documents. Maybe Elon Musk is right to stay skeptical, or maybe there’s really something we still don’t understand.