This is why i started off with saying, its free choice.
Seeing is not believing. Believing is seeing.

There are so many alien encounter / sighting stories that to believe it is all fake is really large leap.

Further, there is intelligent life on earth that we haven't made contact with.
Run that through your mind.
Entire races living in parallel with us.

It will be a very interesting future now that we have decided to open up to contact.
Going forward, the tide will turn from mostly doubters, to few doubters.