Alien Contact, Government Denial and Coverup The North American Air Defense Command, known as NORAD, was established in 1958.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) Director Seth Shostak, Ph.D., says he doesn’t think that U.S. government agencies or the military have a plan for possible first contact.

We're unprepared for when E.T. reaches out to us. A team of experts is determined to change that with the first new alien "contact" protocol in 35 years.

And that prize could spark war, as the countries that didn’t contact aliens scramble to find out where E.T. is and how they might start up their own interplanetary conservations. If the country ...

Aliens Could Be All Around Us—But We’re Totally Unprepared for ‘First Contact’ It’s only a matter of time before we find the aliens, scientists say. So what should happen next?

If aliens contact Earth, it may not be humans who get the call: expert ... Aliens." "Even to the nearest star, it will take us 50,000 years to get there with chemical rockets.

A clue for how we might treat aliens we ever do have contact with may lie in the rights we've afforded non-human species on our planet. Although many countries now recognise animals ranging from ...

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide By David Delgado Shorter, University of California, Los Angeles , Kim TallBear, University of Alberta and William Lempert, Bowdoin ...

Currently, the only alien contact protocol that humans have was established by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) community in 1989. The protocol, which was last revised ...

In 2023, SETI conducted a global simulation of how first contact might work, transmitting a sample coded message from Mars such as aliens might send. Citizen scientists were able to crack the code ...