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It would be really funny if this was Obama messing with Trump. "Why has nobody told ME! What else does Obama know that I don't?". I can easily imagine Trump being unnerved by this

That fat fuck could not keep his mouth shut if he knew about aliens.

We're assuming that if the conspiracy has any truth to it, that it's something that the government broadly has a unified front on and are willing to share and report data with each other and report it upwards.

I think the last several years should have taught us that it's more than plausible with the size, scale and complexity of the US government, intelligence agencies, the thousands of huge subcontractors and other "grey" organizations, that some agencies or entities could have knowledge of things that the rest do not.

I don't have an opinion on "aliens" or if there's a crashed saucer cover-up, there's been too much disinformation and BS for me to have a take one way or another, but I firmly believe they are hiding shit that no sane person would share with the president if they wanted to keep it secret, not everyone is like the average American and most people with years of training and professionalism would look at Trump and know at first glance he's an impotent clown and a con-man, most people in highest levels of defense and government broadly are just waiting for him to pass.

If there's a government agency that knows the truth about it, they are smart enough to make absolutely sure he will not hear about it

we always find ways to use the virtually limitless and some people always want to push the boundaries. We certainly, if limited to what we know now, use lasers to accelerate solar sail ships or some such with some other engine for braking or such. That is if we don't just straight out find some new technology once we understand physics more.

Any physics grad can tell you that life visiting earth from another planet is impossible, because with absolute proof we know physics is truly universal.

We might find bacteria in a comet or meteor fragment.

It’s also possible they never told him. I can imagine more secretive and/or shady government agencies only provide info on a need-to-know basis even to the executive level.

I don't know about aliens or whatnot, but I don't believe for a moment that people with actual secrets and important information, along with years or decades of intelligence experience and training, would look at Donald Fucking Trump and say "Damn, it's too bad I have to share this highly-secret information with this guy, but I guess I have to."

Hell no, this is still the liberal mindset that there are "rules" that governments need to follow. We should know well by now that there are no rules, that the government of the US is built largely on lies and image, compartmentalized knowledge, and that nobody with actual power suffers consequences for breaking whatever rules they were supposed to have.

You could get him to keep the secret forever: "Mr. President, it's my duty to inform you that space aliens are real. But they only want to talk to Obama."

Yah, but it's also statistically more likely that we have missed crossing paths with them or even seeing their signs by millions of light years, as well as millions of years of history.

Entire empires could have risen to galactic power and ruled vast portions of the galaxy and finally splintered, evolved or gone extinct in just the million years before humans invented stone tools. Or some thousands of years during the Devonian period or something. Or the nearest planet with life is still just boneless fish and will need a hundred million more years to develop radio.

We're not only a microscopic dot in space, we're also a microscopic dot in time. And our ability to even look out into space and detect anything is a tiny shaving of time off that dot.

Also statistically most likely that no life form has ever been able to leave its solar system, huge limited the opportunity to have detected each other

Statistically *improbable

It's also seemingly impossible for aliens to traverse dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of light years. Unless it's in the solar system, which it's not, it's not actually possible. They could send a machine perhaps. Unless you believe in some type of warp speed, which I don't.

You're substituting "statistically impossible" for "emotionally impossible."

Life is certain to exist, but multicellular life is less likely and intelligent multicellular who reaches for the stars is even less likely

Earth is special. More special than most of the other planets that exist. But it's not the only special one.

If we presume a functionally infinite universe sure life pretty much has to exist in multiple spots. That's a big presumption by itself though.

After that, is said civilization on some dinosaur shit? Are they so far beyond us we look like cavemen in comparison? Are they looking around the universe and just missed us? Do we want them to find us? Historically humanity finds less advanced groups and kills, enslaves, or just robs them blind. No reason to think the alien conquistadors would be better then the Spanish ones.