"Develop the technology to travel light years through space, and craft to fly through an alien planet's atmosphere (more dense/less dense/hotter/cooler), and th

"Develop the technology to travel light years through space, and craft to fly through an alien planet's atmosphere (more dense/less dense/hotter/cooler), and then... flash a few lights, disappear, bend over a bit of corn, and bother a farmer in the middle of nowhere?" On the flip side, if you want to interact with a baby animal you've never experienced before and has never experienced you, I don't image one would go in firing on all cinders banging pots and showing off.