>Talking to regular NPC's, their biggest hurdle keeping them from waking up is not believing their are (or even could be) people out there so organized and so evil that they are capable and willing to do the things that they have been doing.
yes
they would believe an FX fake alien talking to them over their own human neighbors or whistleblowers telling him that their govt/univ/hollywood/pharma/bigfood/corps/etc are pure evil
the propaganda is so strong