Scientists want to measure and test before theorizing, nor theorize before having anything to measure or test. Bring a materials scientist a section of UFO hull to analyze, or a biologist an alien rat to dissect, or an astronomer an extraterrestrial radio signal that can be decoded, and there will be plenty of focused interest. Alternatively, bring some grainy videos, eyewitness or "survivor*" reports, and earnest amateurs linking together half-understood facts gleaned from selective reading, and you'll get the appropriate indifference such is worth.
* Look at the word associated with people who have purportedly experienced contact with aliens. It's not very subtle in the emotional response it is trying to evoke, is it?
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