Aliens, Hiding In the Bushes

WHY, OH WHY don't the aliens from other planets reveal themselves to us, and contact us directly? Well, maybe they aren't there. But, jsut for the sake of discussion, assume that they are. Assume for the moment that the universe is home to a wide variety of lifeforms, intelligent and otherwise, many species of whom are zipping around "our" galaxy even as we speak, fully aware of our existence here on earth. Its always fun to fantasize. Consider this: if you yourself want to observe an ant colony, or a beehive, or a stone age culture in the Amazon valley, what do you do first? Why, the first thing you do is make sure that they can't see you as you obserive them. Why? Because you want to observe them, whoever they are, behaving they way they normally do, without being influenced by an outside observer, a frightening disruptive outside observer whose very presence changes everything, including behavior. The first thing you do is hide from the ones you want to observe. Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle" says; the very act of observing anything changes whatever you are obsrving, living or non living. In order to see something, you must shine a light on it, and the light makes the observed behave differently. Next time some new age wacko tries to tell you that folks from Andromeda, or Hydra, or Sirius, or wherever, are infiltrating the Federal Reserve or maintaining undersea military bases here on Earth, demand proof. The next time aforementioned new age wacko claims that aliens, any number of different species of them, already have contacted humanity directly, choosing some chosen few with whom to interact while leaving the rest of us out of the loop, demand proof. (you won't get it). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. But you gotta believe, they're there, they're here, and they are smart, and well hidden. They'll come to us when they choose, and not a moment before. They simply happen to understand that once they come out of hiding, we humans freak, and that's a game changer. They'll change the game when they choose. You can see them now, amazed at our constant violence, and, for instance, our weird undeclared Chsistian-Islamic stand off, wondering how in the world two nearly identical and entirely fabricated religions can mutually hate so much, or even continue to exist in a high tech "civilization". They probably employ very simple invisibility technology, technology which we also have. And if they aint even out there, we're off the hook! But what a boring universe it would be...