If aliens were publicly declared real by the major governments, life would be the same for almost everyone, everywhere until the tech was understood

Hot take, but I really think that public recognition of aliens alone wouldn’t change the world all that much. The aliens aren’t attacking earth, they’re just looking at us from their ships, stopping our nukes, and occasionally giving us craft to play with. They clearly aren’t helping us understand their tech, or we would already be exploring star systems by now.

Everyone who thinks all world religions would simply disappear are wrong. Many religious people, including most Christians, don’t see any conflict between the existence of ET and the core beliefs of the faith. I fully believe in God and the aliens.

World conflicts would not cease to exist, either. Nations still have economic and cultural issues with one another that will continue. Aliens being declared real doesn’t change that some places are poor and others are rich, leading to imbalance and fighting.

Even the tech itself being known doesn’t change anything until it’s useful. “Did you hear?! The US government has flying saucers!” “Sir, this is Denny’s.” Your bills will still be due, your job will still be expecting you, and your life will still be the same, albeit for this one fact that people now believe there are other beings not from earth in the Universe.

What really changes things, and I mean REALLY does so, is the practical understanding and use of the alien tech we have been given. This will lead to leaps and bounds in science and overall improve the experience of every human on earth. 100% clean, almost unlimited energy. Transportation that is so cheap and reliable, everyone can use it. Understandings about the universe that lead to better science of ourselves, possibly improving health and medicine as we start to understand multidimensional components to the human existence/body.