I think it's unlikely that there aren't alien life forms out there somewhere.
What I think is less likely, is that they have conquered the immense scientific and engineering problems required to travel such vast distances in space, to land on Earth, and abduct fat americans and probe their assholes.
Phlog, I don't understand it.
You seem like an intelligent guy, how is it you can not comprehend how it would be possible for another civilization to overcome vast distances?
Where and what do you think "our" technology will be capable of in another hundred years,...1000 years,...1 million years, 100 million years, etc.?
Seriously, at the exponential rate our technology is accelerating at right now where could we be in another million years?
The possibililty of another race having 1 million to a Billion year head start on us is entirely possible is it not?
You are aware that you are limiting your possibility of what is not only possible, but entirely probable based soley on your current level of thinking right?
I can't help but think that you would be one of the same people who would not have believed in the light bulb, that would have not believed in flight, a trip to the moon, communication over great distances without wires, etc.
Too many examples of seemingly impossible feats have come to pass.
Reducing the mass of an object is currently the suggested method/theory for travelling faster than light, because E=MC 2 is true...so mass must be reduced and in fact completely negated in order for such speeds to happen.
Whether that is by changing the frequency/vibration of the objects in question or not I am not sure, but that is for the ongoing progress of science to figure out.
(It is quite probable that this is why many crafts are seen as becoming or being "light" as their vibration takes on the characteristics of "light". ).
Also, beyond the atomic level we are all made of light.
Anyways, just throwing some stuff you "might" find interesting.
I apologize if I am coming across as "pushing" my ideas on you, that is not my intent.