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No there isn't, because as I have illustrated above, an 'inductive inference' pointing to a hypothesis presupposes a set of data selectively chosen and written down in such a way that the hypothesis is already present.
I think you probably have something else in mind, perhaps "abductive inference" (i.e. "inference to the best explanation").
That's the kind of science aliens use.