That's a great idea.
I'm not a believer in the alien origin of UFOs. I would give very, very long odds against there ever having been ET intelligence poking around here. Having said that I'm not going to say it's impossible.
It is worth investigating at some deeper level if he's not using my money. And I think that's a traditional role of the very wealthy, sort of like underwriting a Rembrandt or da Vinci.
Good for him.
Arf