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Originally Posted by Agrippina
Think about it. How's the best way to learn about another culture. You go and live among them. At first you are a stranger, quaint, someone people talk about and they laugh at the way you speak but once you've been there for awhile, the novelty wears off. So how do you know that your odd-looking new neighbour, who claims to come from some far-off country and speaks with a strange accents, isn't actually an alien from another planet. Maybe they evolved the same way we did, aliens don't necessarily have to have green heads and pointy ears.
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I don't believe that they look the "hollywood" image, but I highly doubt that they will look that closely to us without assistance.
But, to observe, they would take the same tactics as spying, being a bird or a bug, would make it easier to observe a family at dinner or the political system, without drawing attention to yourself. They would come to learn, not just to live. There are just much better, safer ways for the aliens to study us than to pretend to be one of us.