I am not a believer. I listen to Coast and read these alien invasion threads because aliens are exceedingly popular and so many claim personal contact and project so much onto them.
Fact is, if there are space aliens, they would view us as the space aliens, and dangerous on top of that.
You operate on the basis of the second ‘if’ in one of its variations. Many operate on the basis of the first ‘if’: 1)if the ETs are demons; 2) if there are ETs they are just as real as us ... the same conclusion is reached in either case, that open proclamation will be the end of humankind’s universal innocence, but only ‘if’ the reality of ETs is proven by us or by them, by accident or design.