They have also helped. They often show up like folklore demons, in parts of South America, though with matching important features. They used to present themselves as faeries. Surely the gray alien look is also done to help match up with expectations of the imaginations of more modern cultures.
Modern propaganda and intelligence manipulation techniques have been made advanced, and well codified. But, they have been part of the human experience, any time we get populated and ordered well enough to have something we might call a civilization.
The info is surely manipulated, and poisoning data works much better than censoring it. Poisoning it makes it harder to discern truth vs falsehood, if you can't get hard evidence. They weren't dummies thousands of years ago, just a bit less sophisticated on these matters.
And more? Read different transitions, and some passages make it clear that back when they were writing what became our OT, they expected clerical scholars to have read more works than we have knowledge of. What happened to them, exactly? Did the only copies get stuffed into our favorite spearman's libraries, like old world building 7s, or what?
Oh, and even Alexander made mention of flying saucers. They've been observing and messing with us for a long time.
Why the hardon about it? I want less government. A shutdown does that. Keep it up. Redefine a handful of things as essential, like air traffic control, maybe, before the next one. What's going on is part of what I voted for.
I already take it, nice.