“Ok. It sounded as though you were denouncing any and everyone who wanted to talk about this.”
No, I am all in favor of serious and rational discussion.
As a ham for over 50 years, I have been a big proponent of the SETI program, but in my 65 yeras, I have yet to see even the slightest evidence of ET, or the observation of anything that could be from another world.
I also find it amusing when a new president comes to office, the ET world goes all abuzz that just MAYBE this will mean “DISCLOSURE”.. All the presidents have known whats hidden in Roswell, don’tcha know.
Since Obammie is the Messiah, I am sure he will tell us any moment now.
I've thought for many years that SETI is scanning the wrong band. They're scanning radio frequencies, but I don't think interstellar travelers would use radio at all. The fact that SETI has been scanning the heavens for so long, and have come up with nothing, has convinced me that they're probably looking in the wrong place.
As to what band SETI should be scanning, I don't know, but I do think that they made a fundamentally flawed assumption when they decided to scan the radio band.
You talk of never having seen any kind of evidence that ET exists. My son and I witnessed something once that was beyond any technology that I know of. I don't claim that what I saw is evidence of ET, but it was so far beyond any technology that I've ever seen or heard of, that I can't believe it was ours.