They who believe in nothing (but themselves) will fall for anything.
Folks who like telling others what they can and can't do are probably going to stop at nothing to gain the belief of others. That's the part I find credible about the MSM participation in these matters (convenient tools/fools).
That just about covers the SJW's.
The arrival of actual living beings requires either that those beings originate in the local solar system (IMHO, completely unlikely), or that they have found solutions to physics problems that our current science deems impossible. Alternatively, they might originate in space itself (nomadic colony ships, etc.; i.e.,
Independence Day). Another alternative, robotic seed ships which hatch/educate/indoctrinate embryos when they are a generation or so shy of the arrival date.
Myself, I think that anything claiming to be space aliens most likely originates right here on Terra Firma, and is either a hoax or a gambit.
I take a long view and say, prove it first.
Space is just too big for interstellar exploration. We (...if there are others...) live in island solar systems. Life is just too short to make such travel over the truly immense distances the SyFy topics tout about become attractive to sane beings.
Something to think about... This (these...) could be (a) really scary proposition(s).
My view on visitors from outer space is that our own history does not speak well for the natives. Their ability to do what we can't (arrive at all)... puts us at the bottom of the putative food pyramid.
Buy more ammo, Earthlings...!!!
Better yet, emigrate to another world; get some of the eggs out of that single basket. Let's
us become the cockroaches of the universe.
Right now, a single bomb can get us all.
Let's reinstitute defense at a distance on a whole new level; fight our interstellar wars around somebody else's suns.
Greg