That and their distrust in the government. Seriously, they may lie to us, buy I don't think they would that reluctant on information. Plus, it's just stupid.
It's a thing about humanity. Sunrise on a heliocentric solar system looks the same as geocentric. And yet every single culture put us in the middle. It could have been 50-50 but instead we were all wrong together.
My point is that we see what we want. No, don't change the words to suit them.