Not really. They are happy to discuss things as long as it is useful misdirection. During the U-2 era in the 1950s, they were happy to encourage discussions of UFOs. It was a nice cover for people to explain away what they saw.
Yes, that’s the positive possibility. UFOs make good cover stories for research. The bad one is that they really are setting us up for some fake invasion scam whereby they institute a one world government. I’d like to think that will remain in the land of crazy conspiracy theories, but after all of the crazy things that have happened the last year, I rule almost nothing out.