Why not look for smoke signals too? Why do we think they will be communicating via radio signals. Why not laser? Or gravity waves? Or quantum entanglement? Or something that would be as unguessable to us as laser communication would have been to Ben Franklin?

Wasn't it Hawking's who also warned us against finding out that the other side is not friendly, but hostile.
Listen before you speak, of course it, or they could also be listening, & or watching already.

They are pointing in the right direction. The least likely place to find intelligent life is in DC.

A thorough and independent analysis of UFO data is needed.

I second Mr. Rogers.
There is overwhelming evidence that we are the subject of surveillance being conducted by at least two non-human species. Until science gets on board with the UFO issue in a serious way, they'll just be wasting money.

If you think about it,what are the odds another civilization is roughly the same level as us technologically? That would mean they evolved in parallel with us,which is,to put it mildly,highly unlikely,except in a Star Trek universe.Much more likely they are thousands/millions of years ahead of us,and use some unfathomable means of communication,or else they are still swinging from tree to tree,and haven't discovered fire yet.

Bob Flint - Your right, he did, he must have done a u-turn on the issue.
I personally agree with Wolf0579, but if governments are in denial and the scientific community looks down on those that believe - it isolates those that want to do as Wolf0579 said, ruining their career at the least, those who believe in UFOS really need one to crash land in front of live television broadcasts by several stations in the middle of a city or something before governments would change their stance ( assuming it is true, they know more than they lead on and are denying it ).
To me its sad funding for this exists while we have world hunger, environmental and medical issues etc, there should be a UN stance on what projects should take precedence.

I agree with a lot of the comments on here, about the uselessness of searching for radio waves. What is wrong with looking for more advanced forms of communication? Some have been mentioned here. It's time for these people to think -and research- out of the 'box.' They are scientists after all, can they not think of a better way to carry communication waves through the vastness of space? I'm sure they already have.

The problem is that if we do detect life, unless it is in our solar system or near neighboring stars, it may no longer exist. Communication would then be impossible due to the time delay. However it would be nice to know that we are not or were not unique.

How embarrassing! These so-called scientists are apparently hell-bent on discovering alien life, seemingly unaware that not only has alien life - for want of a better description - already found us, but is probably responsible for our experimental "evolution" in the first place. We are aliens too, and, as I understand it, the experiment ends very soon. Good 'ere, init?