>We have already made contact with at least a hundred intelligent spacefaring civilizations
Very true. I suspect this news, and last year's UFO videos from the Navy, and Don Trump Jr.'s recent raising of the ET topic with his father are priming normies for the use of alien-derived weapons in the coming kinetic war with China.
If this comes to pass, it will be quite something to see how POTUS responds to the public clamoring for non-military tech derived from these sources - for transportation, electricity, agriculture, healthcare, etc.
He has to step lightly here because if he gives the public too much truth, it could make normies view his as a loon who doesn't deserve their vote in November. If he reveals just the right amount, it will fill the electorate with hope/wonder not unlike how JFK did with the Apollo program.