Insidiously dystopian innovations used for controlling the narrative, creating fiction and propaganda, securing funding often for clandestine technologies and research, generating arms and tech races.

If they exist, then they aren't a bunch of obnoxious and grainy recordings of god knows why any aliens travel all the way to the planet Earth just to shit on people. It must be so amusing. How to spook an inferior race, you just have to shit on it. Traverse the cosmos, now simply crash on an alien planet. All so their governments can enforce dystopia hiding them for securing funding for their latest tech.