The following is my speculation on the increasing emergence of evidence for the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and how it might relate to what I see as the approaching technological singularity event.
All of human history will someday be seen as a selection process that gave birth to the first Earthly artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the resulting technological singularity event.
Intelligent biological life is unlikely to persist on a cosmic timescale. The universe is simply too volatile and inhospitable to biology of the sort we are familiar with.
At some point, relatively soon after the singularity event, I believe we will effectively become post-biological — probably in a manner similar to that described in the transcension hypothesis — and move into “inner space” (that is, we will move outside of our universe, in a sense, and into a preference-optimizing simulation).
At this point I believe we will join a galactic or intergalactic community of post-biological or synthetic biological entities. A community whose scout probes — that is, what we call UAP (most likely AGI-controlled von Neumann probes) — are probably already here in anticipation of the emergence of our singularity event.
These scout probes may also be steering this process in subtle ways, preparing for our transition, or, more ominously, standing guard in case there is an alignment problem that constitutes a threat to their (and / or our) existence.
Whoever wins this race to the singularity is who will determine our future — that is, what values will dictate our future, and our possible position in the cosmic community.
This situation is highly concerning, considering that our superpower governments have little concern for the suffering of non-human sentient beings, and many do not even have a great deal of concern for human suffering.
An AGI that develops under the influence of these value systems could place national (or ruling class) imperatives over universal concern for sentient life (perhaps setting out to dominate rather than liberate).
It is my hope that something akin to Pearcean abolitionism (constrained, Walk-Away-from-Omelas negative utilitarianism) or Ataraxism guides AGI development / alignment. And that something similar guided ET artificial superintelligence — if, indeed, that is what created these UAP.