The alien stuff is real. I experience it personally.
A good rule of thumb to use for this kind of thing is to look at how the MSM treats it. If Rachel Maddow, CNN, the Washington Post etc are going on and on about it, pushing it hard as a real thing, then yeah obviously it's just their latest distraction/narrative. That's not what's happening with the alien issue. The same cast of characters that held hearings about vaccines with RFK and hearings about the government censorship apparatus are the ones holding hearings about UFOs. The MSM are treating it just like they always have: move along, nothing to see here, it's all just conspiracy theorists.
If you want to know where the push is coming from to get this issue into the spotlight, one can easily infer it's coming from the white hats.