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I'll twist your question a bit. When I get asked "is there such thing as ghosts" I used to say no absolutely not, no evidence. However, as I've grown I've changed my answer to "I don't know". I think conventional ghosts as people see them could be anything, we have used superstition to explain the unknown before. How can we possibly know that there are or not, with other dimensions, space time, and general weirdness we just don't understand. To be blunt we understand so little that who knows.
I apply the same to aliens. Very well could be here, and very well could know how to hide themselves. There's zero evidence of it so we shouldn't adopt policy assuming that or anything, that would be insane, but with vast amounts of unknowable, well how can I say no?
I mean.
That's how science works.
We don't say that is impossible. We say we have no evidence that that is possible.
a lot of it can be explained by human psychology and physiological triggers for those psychological events.
hence why 'ghost' experiences tend to shared by families or other people who are emotionally close, but strangers moving in to haunted houses never experience the same events.