The U.S. military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia?

We're all just spit-balling here so.....

...Of course, there could be such a delta in our existences so as to make the ancients unwilling to interact with us.  Perhaps even for benign reasons. Who knows?

Good stuff. I do feel after a certain - perhaps soft? - threshold you can recognize intelligence/sentience.

But the criteria might be a bit different as you go "up" the scale. Perhaps the Object/Subject barrier breaks, perhaps their use of Psi and OOBEs far exceeds ours. Perhaps they've longed abandoned the Physicalist Faith and thus advanced deeper in their ability to manipulate reality.

All those weird emerald technological cities people see on DMT, where the supposed "natives" are surprised by human "spirits" showing up...there's work being done on extending the DMT state so to (hopefully) ease exploration of wherever people go. Perhaps it is just in their own minds, but will be interesting to see what those entities have to say for themselves. Even Sam Harris used to bring them up at atheist conferences...