When all you have is weapons everyone looks like an enemy.
Indeed.
Well, when your collected recent mythos includes unconsenting abduction, anal probing, killing livestock etc... You’re gonna have some ‘splainin to do to avoid HV kinetic and coherent light hole punching on your folk.
And ain’t it surprising (NOT!) that their oft relayed “wisdom” includes collectivist and anti individualist bullS***?
I’m leaning WAY more these days on them being either a globalist elite construct or actually demonic manifestations. You don’t noodle out the secrets of how to get from impossibly far point A to B, or here, to spread tree hugger tripe, you’d be doing it for either conquest, or because you might find actually cool beings that might have some insight into things you’ve technologically missed/neglected or resources scarcer than your origin worth exchanging...
Heck, maybe even Maple Syrup, or Ginger... (SciFi geeks :-))