We feel some suspicions so strongly that we don't really need Hollywood to confirm them.
We just need an expert or two with exceedingly good credentials.
For so many years, humans have speculated -- even hoped -- that we aren't all there is. Because how dull that would be.
Fine organizations such as SETI have constantly attempted to make contact with aliens[1]. If only they'd had the right phone number. If only they'd talked to Donald Trump.
Please, I'm not attempting to make political hay in a field of dreams. Instead, I've been moved, you see, to celestial rapture by the revelations of Haim Eshed, a retired Israeli general, a professor, and three-time winner of the Israel Security Award.
As The Jerusalem Post reported[2], Eshed revealed that there is a Galactic Federation. Israel and the US have been conversing with it for years. I'm not sure whether emojis may have been involved, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
It seems that the US and the Galacticos have an underground base on Mars, because you can't be too careful who might turn up on Mars at any given moment. It could be Antifa. It could be Elon Musk.
It's unclear what the US and their spacey counterparts may be working on underground. Eshed insists, however, that President Trump was recently about to reveal that these aliens exist.
However, the Galacticos persuaded him not to reveal their existence because it would cause worldwide panic not seen since Tom and Nicole split up.
I failed to elicit a response from the White House as to the potential veracity of Eshed's claims. President Bill Clinton, however, once confessed[3]