Curiouser and curiouser. A long article titled "13 Reasons to Believe Aliens Are Real" appears in New York magazine today. Are mainstream news sources jockeying for position in the event this story keeps growing? And more curious is that they're giving their readers "reasons to believe."
Very long but worth the read, even if just from a sociological standpoint
http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/13-reasons-to-believe-aliens-are-real.html