Well, seeing as the Vatican is now saying that a belief in aliens does not preclude a belief in God; I don't see why not. The fact that the papacy is cynically 'hedging its bets' by adopting this position doesn't really come into it. After all a religion's first duty is to protect, and promote itself - 'selling god' is merely its stock-in-trade.
I think it's possible to believe in anything, but I believe aliens are really evolutionary advanced humans from the future.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.