Are aliens real? Nobody knows for sure, but everybody wants to believe. Outer space is a vast expanse that there’s so much more to learn about, which is why it’s hard to flat-out deny the possibility that other intelligent lifeforms exist.
Especially since thousands of documents from the CIA on unidentified flying objects were just released in January 2021 and placed in the Black Vault, an online archive of declassified government documents.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/cia-thousands-documents-ufos-cache