Let 'me' answer with a question.
What aliens eat babies?
What do the elite do?
Is it easier to get a group of people to trust you… Or to drive them into hysterical paranoia?
If I am up to no good, and people are on the trail, it is far easier to feed them absurdities. I give them sketchy 'evidence' that I am a dimension travelling dream eater… And let them try and prove that in the court of public opinion, where they look crazy.
The fact I am building doom spider robots in my basement gets lost in the mix.
There is some weird stuff going on in space, probably more than we know. But it is an opiate for the inquisitive and a wonderful red herring.
We will get disclosure by fixing our shit and advancing the private sector to the point where we are mining the moon and running iridium extraction from the astroid belt. That stuff won't happen while we are treated as chattel for people who believe they are the gods over our society.