What If Aliens Are Avoiding Us?

I take it for granted that Aliens would obviously avoid us.

Now on the other hand, if you consider the billions of years old the earth is, and the human population is still relatively new in comparison... we could be seen as aliens to the earth itself.

The fact that we're still discovering things on our own planet is obvious as to why we haven't discovered much in the galaxy either yet.

I don't think in my lifetime we'll discover intelligent "alien" life, not because it doesn't exist... it's just multiple centuries away before it happens.

If humans are still alive and well in 500 years from now, I think our chances of discovering alien life will increase.

Until then... I doubt we'll discover them (or them show themselves to us) (...and that includes Moore's Law still taking place.)

Now, I'm open minded about UFO sightings, etc, and the possibilities exist that they are interacting already...

..but I think those are specific rare anomalies that are short lived and will continue to be rare.