Having read what's in the public domain from the hearings, I'm having trouble squaring these two things:

> there are machines that have been here possibly a very long time. think at least 500 years. theres no indication the "they" behind those machines have ever made contact, or are on this planet, or are even still in existence. but there is something mechanical here that was not made by us.

> so many people make leaps beyond the evidence we have and then declare them not plausible.

Why isn't the first one exactly what you're complaining about in the second statement? Have I missed something?