Alien intelligence that makes it to earth is likely to be 'artificial', not biologic.
In fact the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of non-biologic alien super-intelligence reaching us long before biologic alien intelligence does, if it ever does.
The creation of artificial intelligence smarter than humans here on earth will cause an intelligence explosion. This artificial super intelligence (ASI) will set out to make better and better ASI, in shorter and shorter time. Once set in motion humans will witness the birth of a super intelligence millions of times smarter than us. That ASI, being non-biologic, will build itself to be indifferent to vacuum, radiation, and time, given the time required and the harshness to be encountered with interstellar travel. It will then spread out into the galaxy in order to increase its odds of survival. Its human creators stuck here on earth, or even within our solar system, will probably destroy themselves or be destroyed - climate change, nuclear war, an extinction level asteroid, gamma ray bursts - you name it - long before we attempt interstellar travel.
If ASI can be created here on earth, it can also be created by aliens capable of building computers elsewhere. Their ASI will undergo an intelligence explosion and then spread out into interstellar space leaving their biologic creators in the dust. It is this alien intelligence that is most likely to visit us first.
If I had heard of just one alien abduction story that didn't involve huge headed, large eyed, biologic, intelligence, it would be oh so much more convincing.
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