If "the government" were really "covering up" sapient extraterrestrial life...?

little did you know the observatory workers placed a panorama of the sky inside the telescope, so you couldn't see the Martians.

Yes. That is if any such sapient extraterrestrial life actually came here from somewhere else in our own galactic neighborhood of this universe. Whose says they did?

In other words unless there is some physics we know nothing of that permits 'travel' that transcends time and space or even the boundaries of our universe and into some other verse of the multi-verse, no extra terrestrial being could have traveled here from anyplace we can see. And if such unknown physics does permit it, then we could never find them by looking through our telescopes.

It's much easier to come up with conspiracy theories than it is to come up with ways how they could actually be pulled off. Like NASA covering up "Nibiru" on its way to destroy us. How can they stop people from walking out at night, looking at the sky, and seeing the thing if it existed? Or for that matter even for motivations to concoct a conspiracy. Like one nutcase on here who thinks the Voyager missions didn't happen and are just a big government hoax. For what?

The first hook in almost all conspiracy theories is "Here's something the government / scientists / "they" don't want you to know. A straightforward appeal to paranoia. After that comes the nonsense and lies.

Yeah. I lay awake at night wondering the same thing. That and where did papa smurf come from?

Probably