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Would be much more terrifying if the aliens actually acted like those grey aliens from the stories.
The version of aliens I found most terrifying are those that are actually far too human. Or, they are at least willing to treat us the way we've treated other creatures and other humans at times.
The most terrifying aliens are those that simply, at a fundamental level, do not recognize us as people. Whatever their definition of personhood is, we're not part of it. Our pain means nothing. Our destruction means nothing. Our suffering means nothing. They'll perform medical experiments on or disect someone alive without anesthesia, simply because they consider us no more worthy of personhood than we would consider rocks and trees worthy of it. To them, we are only collections of atoms, and we have zero moral value or agency.
Imagine being at the mercy of a being that has access to God like technology, but simply does not believe you have any moral value. Imagine a being that would happily and calmly flay you alive and afterwards honestly believe that they have done nothing wrong.
To me, that is the scariest kind of alien. One that treats humans exactly how we often treat other creatures.
There's a good novel called Translation State by Ann Leckie you should read.
Technically you should read the Imperial Radch trilogy first since that establishes a lot of back story, but it features a species called the Presger who don't even seem to conform to euclidean space, so much so any human who ends up in close proximity to them is assumed dead, even if they show back up looking fine, it is assumed they are a facsimile created by the Presger.
To me, that is the scariest kind of alien. One that treats humans exactly how we often treat other creatures.
Horror movies use this fear so often. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre especially.
The book Under the Skin is directly related to this concept
Like the Qu except they believe it to be a moral imperative to do what they do. That answer to a higher power or purpose makes them more dangerous. They evolve species against their will and deform them horrifically to their image of what the universe should be and a lot of times it ends up in the eventual extinction or a torturous existence. Swriously fuck those things
The Mi-Go of the Lovecraft Mythos are basically that (via the CoC and DG games, which are kinda the main form of the modern Mythos). They are interested in the adaptations of terrestrial life to the exotic pocket of "not insane horror space" it occupies. Humans are an important part of that, but they aren't people - nothing in earth-space can be people, due to it being sheltered from "actual" reality.
Though they're willing to accept those who are infected with cosmic spores/etc and attain spooky enlightenment... but they're probably going to be dissected as well, just willingly.
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The racism on this site is disappointing 
They get owls too huh
What if they were identical to humans in every way, but 100 years behind? So they're driving little Model Ts and building Art Nouveau style? Little brother civilization.
"23 Skidoo! You all are space aliens?"
"I guess from your perspective, yeah."
"Golly gee! What's that strange box there that can play tunes like the gramophone?"
"It's called an iPhone."
Considering the speed of light and thst they'd hace to travel faster than our broadcasts could reach em...not the worst idea
It would be really cool if their faster than light space ship was some Jules Verne-ass steampunk contraption
Aliens "we thought youd be more comfortable with a design based on your own ideas of what a spaceship looks like. Really it can be any shape."
I was thinking more of like a situation where somehow we had a spaceship that was meeting them in the near future, in the next couple of decades, so our guys make landfall in this planet expecting to see some 
style things but it just looks like the Roaring Twenties.
Star Trek thr Original Series season 2 episode 17, A Piece of the Action is this literally
They're owls, stupid
When will you apologise for the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, fiend
When you stop calling me Hooty McBoob
I've never called you that but I will now
Stop probing me!
Kinda excited to see Age of Disclosure. It's nothing and I know that, but it's some fun slop.
Not paying fucking US$25 for it though but I'm sure it'll get uploaded to YouTube pretty soon
lmao oh man, that'd be a hoot!! 
but also, like, okay...imagine if the little grey guys were also really into flower (weed, for the elderly millennials on here) and the first thing they said was - get ready, sit down for this - "....take me to your dealer" (in like a robotic alien voice!)
imagine, though!? 
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=PE23Y_aKSjI
Edit: heres a better one too https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=xJFRLGfuZto
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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