Investigate or distract from?
Being an endtimes type Christian, I lean towards that we are being prepared for something big and this is just another piece of the puzzle.
Over the last years, the subject has gone from nuts and bolts UFO's buzzing naval vessells to the paranormal.
One former CIA officer--John Ramirez--who has been giving interviews has already mentioned that perhaps Lucifer wasn't such a bad guy after all (in that he was in favor of the development of mankind, unlike God who wanted to restain our technological development).