While everybody is looking away from the sun and staring at Jupiter, expect the aliens to come from out of the sun. It’s an old trick...just watch any WW II movie about fighter pilots. The bogies always come from the sun.
Toward the south if you’re in the U.S. Southeast after sunset, southwest before sunrise.
You’re right. If only we hadn’t pissed off the Martians! Varlock The Vicious could have been an ally. Oh , what fools we’ve been!