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Super intelligent aliens that can travel faster than the speed of light and zip around our planet without breaking the sound barrier come and visit us but do not wish to make direct contact and thus cloak their presence. Except they somehow get spotted and photographed all the time. Their ability to break physical constants and possibly even transcend space and time dimensions apparently is no match for our advanced photograph technology (although they have managed to keep all photographs at poor resolution, so that's pretty impressive). For some counter points, they are not interested in us because the universe is big and old. Obviously size and age are directly related to significance, like how 1 ton of mud is more interesting and significant than 1 pound of gold or a 1 ounce computer chip. Of course, we would send a probe to any orb in the solar system as fast as possible if we had proof of even a single celled organism, but that’s different. But they may want to come here anyway because water is probably very valuable to them, even though hydrogen and oxygen are two of the top three most abundant elements in the universe and presumably they haven’t figured out to combine them.