Correct. The unfortunate alien ambassador would not meet the world's media, he would go straight into a military intelligence lab as Ebbie suggests. This is not a friendly planet. It is a planet filled with fools who are constantly building terrible new weapons and fighting wars against each other.

The world's public, in general, is inclined to be friendly with other races of beings if given half a chance, but they are not in charge of the military intelligence community. It is in charge of itself.

I don't know whether UFOlogists are more interested in "quasi-religion and paranoid conspiracy theories than they are in actual aliens". Some might be. I think what the majority of them are more interested in is finding out more about the various sightings, hypothetical alien craft and occupants thereof. That's what I'm more interested in, but I don't describe myself as a "UFOlogist". I describe myself as an interested person who has had a couple of sightings. Period.