"Good luck to him. Hopefully, the magic energy machine will be coming our way shortly."

I think that's all that needed to be said. It's a grand dream, but it's based on a very narrow set of assumptions that basically amount to magical thinking.

I have always been bothered by the idea that UFO = aliens ipso facto, in fact I can't even pry that mindset out of my own consciousness!
People too quickly conflate the unknown with the unknowable, a persistent problem I used to have. When I historically surveyed the notion of ghosts and demons and woodland spirits and fairies and witches the experiences don't look so different from aliens and abductions and UFOs. So what are we still experiencing? If it's natural phenomena we're just imposing a new superstition in place of an outdated one, if it is mystical and unknowable (which I don't believe it is) then we're doing ourselves a disservice by not defining our boundaries of inquisition and science. These phenomena, even though they can't be explained readily by our science, doesn't mean they can't be eventually or that our way of understanding the world can't be expanded to include it. The physics of Newton was not the physics of Einstein and the physics of Einstein is not the physics or Hawking and the physics of Hawking will not be the last word on what we know... hopefully...