Here are two such cases. Bryant has filed a lawsuit against Virginia's governor, demanding a multiplicity of protections. The Virginia invasion has not yet been chronicled in any peer-reviewed science journal. This lapse will be corrected, I am quite sure, well before Virginia suffers any mass invasion of extraterrestrial aliens. My confidence comes from reading history.
Scientists generally do learn from their mistakes.
In the case of alien invasion of American states, there is a recent lesson staring them in the face. The report was written by Peter K. Ducey and Stacey Noce of Cortland State University . In this case, the scientific community was caught napping, and did not report the mass invasion until after it had reached frightening proportions. This mistake will not happen again. I am sure that, in the months leading up to the larger phase of the invasion, our science journals, our newspapers, our magazines, and our electronic news outlets, would shower us with useful news and advice about how to meet the invaders, and how to successfully market to them.