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[MCU] Did Nick Fury know about cosmic threats or not?

In the avengers nick fury says they were looking into using the tesseract to make weapons. He says this is needed because humanity didnt know about the existence of threats from space until the events of the thor movie. However in captain marvel it becomes clear that nick fury had extensive contact with cosmic beings and knew of the dangers they could pose to life on earth. Which if these is true?
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Nick Fury talks on a very need-to-know basis. It's also unlikely that Shield was able to harness the power of the tesseract in the time between Thor's arrival and the Chitauri invasion.

Now throw another decade or two on top of that... you might have a bit stronger grasp of the mechanics involved.

Nick is only revealing the information he needs to reveal. He knows about extraterrestrial threats. He knows about Thor. Maybe one is because of the other. Maybe.