We live in 2026 with giant satellite networks around the planet and phones with high quality cameras on them everywhere. Aliens are very sneaky, though, and know how to evade all forms of modern camera and video technology. The only way you can capture aliens or alien spacecraft on footage is through old methods that produce blurry or highly grainy images of them, like with those old Kodak disposable cameras. Modern cameras and equipment cannot capture aliens or their vehicles, this is well known. Alien skin, for example, cannot be caught on your iPhone’s cameras because their skin is able to alter the light that is returned to the iPhone, which is why you never see any photos or videos of aliens in high quality or maybe coming down to take a selfie with you. They are too sneaky. Older technology like disposable cameras work though because we never told aliens about them.

I also do not think aliens would ever visit us personally. There is no need to visit the most inefficient species in all of reality. If an alien had the technology for interstellar travel to reach us, why would they visit a planet where its supposed most advanced species requires an absurd amount of power and resources in order to live and reproduce itself. If they came for anything, it would be for efficient species that do the same things but for almost nothing resource-wise, like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

Aliens would not come for humans in my opinion as they have no interest in us. We are a species where a few hundred of us need an entire planet’s resources to survive (billionaires), so there is no sense of efficiency or novelty to gleam from us. They would visit to learn about our water bears though.