Why?
Who knows.
We don’t know everything about them.
However, the lights often demonstrate some very very strange capabilities for “lights.”
Maybe it’s partly a demonstration in such capacities to awe the natives.
1. Lights are seen extending down from ships but the light shaft visibly halting XX feet above the ground.
2. Lights are seen ‘lifting objects’ into the craft.
3. Lights are seen which have visual and even emotional qualities about them which no other lights are known to have.
4. Lights have been seen to function more or less as conveyor belts.