My opinion is that the probability of life developing on another planet, advancing to interstellar travel, and being physically close enough to us to visit us during the last few million years is so implausibly tiny that anyone seriously asking about their relations with human beings can be safely dismissed as a complete rube.
Using an item you haven’t identified is always a recipe for disaster. I have not once heard of a group using an unidentified item and finding out it was anything other than the worst possible thing to use in the situation.
Interesting, I seem to have the opposite condition - something breaks, then they ask me to look at it and by the time I get there it’s working perfectly again.
Arson is a right.
It should be a right.
It’s not hugely convenient without a VTT like Foundry, but properly codifying lying to the players is one of my favourite bits of PF2e. I encourage all my players to take Dubious Knowledge so I can lie to them even more.