SETI received signals but just couldn't find the same signal twice, also SETI has some very interesting protocols when they make contact, if you are a User of SETI @ home and you detected something artificial and call in they will say that it was just a software test. People say they are private funded no one could tell them to keep there discoveries secret, but you have to remember that finding an other intelligent being maybe more advanced than us, would not mean finding a new species which we can put into a schoolbook. It would mean that the uniqueness of humanity as the only “intelligent beings” in the universe would be gone, and you just need to look at religious people they would even kill other people if they insult their believe in god.


So in the end we should give everybody a shot ufologists searching our skies and on the earth to find other intelligent beings, scientists that are asking to universe for answer do their thing to find other intelligent beings. So what is the problem with that, does it really matter who finds other beings first?

Whether the ufologists or the scientists find their groundbreaking evidence we will not get some super technology from other advance civilizations (we have to develop it on our own, we don't give our technology to ants so we can't expect to get any advanced technology), but both types of researchers want just the knowledge and thats what is all about.