wow I just read thru the whole thread and i'm glad people found this article as interesting as I did.
I really don't know what to think tbh. the math says that there's no advanced alien life form out there but then on the other hand you've got thousands upon thousands of first hand testimonials and if you think about it a civilization that's billions of years more advanced than us, you've gotta think they've found out ways past conventional physics and developed flight speeds and technologies that we can't even comprehend.
I like thinking about it