Most likely. It find it funny when aliens in movies almost always land in the us. It may be the world’s most awesome country, but wouldnt at least some of these aliens be curious about german beer or south korean food?

You can clearly see the electric lights of population centers from space. If aliens were doing surveillance, they'd probably stick to the darker spots.

After all, out planet is surrounded by artificial satellites, and we make no attempt to hide them. So clearly some humans are capable of putting things into orbit, and those things could be weapons.

That's weird, when I watch Japanese TV shows a disproportionate amount of the aliens go to Japan

Countries besides the US also have states.

My old country had several smaller countries nested inside it, but no states.

Countries with states:

    Australia
    Austria
    Brazil
    Germany
    India
    Malaysia
    Mexico
    Micronesia
    Myanmar
    New Zealand
    Nigeria
    Palau
    South Sudan

South Africa?

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sigh .... I don't know why I didn't think of that first ...