Hello, everyone i am new to this forum, i was just checking out the topics and this one seems quite interesting. My personal view stands with intellegent life is in outer space and beyond. My reasoning is we do not know if the universe has "boundrys'' and considering we have discovered less than 1% of what we think is out there. It would be arrogant to assume we are the highest form of life out there. Given our time line of modern humans, technology, advances we have accomplished. If a civilazation has a four million year jump on us it is safe to assume they are beyond our comprehension in almost everything. And it is also nieve to think that our extraterrestrial bretheren have nothing to do with life on planet earth. If you cross refrence the past with "speculation" of extraterrestrial presence than a lot of missing pieces seem to appear with great connection. It is also safe to assume the goverment would not let information of this nature leak out due to histaria and mass religous panic. Again just speculation, but from a goverment stand point, play it safe to keep the herd from being rattled. And as far as sending messeges to other races the distance is too vast for our technology it would just become distorted. Just my two cents.