Before the Trolls shred this apart- This is my theory:
The masses won't care unless...
They offer us something that we feel in our individual lives.
If they're just floating up there, no one cares.
If they're observing us and collecting information, we won't care.
If they want to give our governments some information about how to control us better, we won't care.
If they're stopping our nukes, we won't care.
The only way we will care is if they individually alter our lives. That's what the whole UFO/ORB scenario in the sky is showing us right now.
No one cares that much.
The guys who call themselves Ufologists are talking about a major disclosure in January. If that disclosure is video proof that our government has been lying to us about aliens no one will care. If it's video proof of some alien bodies, no one will believe it. Disclosure isn't a big deal without tangible changes felt down here.
People will care once they don't have to pay taxes and their debt is forgiven. They will care once bread costs $1. Even then they will only passively care.