And then I have this other thought..........maybe we're just an experiment on some scientist's desk kind of like a fish tank.
Yeah, similar thought has occured to me. The universe is some school kids science project, that doesn't qualify, and ends up in the thrash can

And like i always say on these topics, alien life not existing is statistical impossibility. Them visiting or communicating with us is physical impossiblity. Because space is incompheresibly big, and speed of light is ridiculously slow in cosmic scale.