{"id":83455,"date":"2026-06-08T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83455"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:48:32","slug":"no-replies-should-be-sent-scientists-issue-alien-contact-protocol-after-government-declassifies-top-secret-ufo-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/no-replies-should-be-sent-scientists-issue-alien-contact-protocol-after-government-declassifies-top-secret-ufo-files\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Replies Should Be Sent\u2019: Scientists Issue Alien Contact Protocol After Government Declassifies Top-Secret UFO Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The New York Post (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When ET phones, don\u2019t pick up.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have outlined a set of protocols for responding to extraterrestrial contact, including a bizarre directive to refrain from answering cosmic correspondence.\u00a0 Adopted by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iaaspace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iaa\/Scientific%20Activity\/iaasetideclaration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eight principles<\/a> were designed to guide \u201cindividuals, institutions and other entities participating in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a scientific field dedicating to scanning the cosmos for radio and laser signals.\u00a0Originally developed by the IAA and SETI between 2022 and 2025, these guidelines were recently updated and released earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Post (caution: tabloid): When ET phones, don\u2019t pick up. Scientists have outlined a set of protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83456,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83455\/revisions\/83456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}