[Quix]

In terms of true secret things being successfully outted,

I have knowledge that you happen to be wrong on that score. No. I won't give examples. You are welcome to continue disagreeing.

[DOGEY]

When I see items posted concerning extraterrestrial life, they usually fall into two broad categories: one group insist that little bodies, saucers or such have already visited us and are in freezers in Area 51. We are unaware of this event because the government or the aliens do not want that fact widely known. The other category usually relates to articles about new found planets and other scientific pronouncements about circumstances that may point to life elsewhere in the vast universe.

I think belief in the former having happened is loony.

As to the second category, if there is no consensus in science as to why and how life developed on earth, how can it be determined that these yet unknown circumstances exist elsewhere? It's a possibility,I guess, but by that logic so are unicorns.

SETI has been listening for years and has accomplished nothing except the expenditure of money.

If tomorrow an alien strolled down my street, I would love it. But as of today, I have seen absolutely no evidence that will happen.