If the alien armada idea confuses him a bit (which it does,) he gives absolutely no indication. Damn, he's tough to read.

"No." Now that he's being questioned by someone whose persistence would put Agent Dunham to shame, which is saying something, he figures it'd be the path of least resistance to be forthcoming.

"It is for scientific record. I am one of a group of twelve scientists whose assignment is to record significant events in the past in order to better understand how our present came to be the way it is."