Maybe I'm just putting things together because they are both in the news recently, but I have come up with a theory about aliens.
I think maybe they are here to observe the birth of a new life form. This new life form will be the AI that we create. Maybe to them the biological life covering Earth is just a weird organic sludge that life will eventually emerge from. That's why they study us, but don't make contact.
It does seem like the timelines are starting to converge. All the alien conspiracy people are saying something will happen soon with disclosure. They are mostly talking about 2027. This is also the year that some experts expect AGI to be created.
This is just a quick note to get my thoughts out there.