It always boggles my mind that there is this relatively well-put together effort at looking for extraterrestrial life in the stars that. . . just sort of ignores the fact that UAPs exist and are already here. It's this weird massive epistemic blindspot that tends to come across as smugly pseudointelligent. We should be looking for technosignatures from other bodies in our solar system in addition to what's done here. The signal might be stronger and at the very least it's much closer to where we know these guys are hanging out.
Ever wondered why a civilization which mastered manned space travel would keep crashing into a planet for 50 years?
UAPs are very convenient for top secret military projects, I bet whoever thought of them couldn’t have imagined that the ruse would work so well for so long.
UAPs that have been studied with any kind of scientific scrutiny have turned out to be ducks and similar advanced forms of non-human life. Beautiful creatures, to be sure, but not exactly what SETI is aiming to find.
There are a lot of people trying very hard to investigate UFOs/UAPs. To my knowledge, they haven't been successful. I'd be surprised if they haven't tried surveying the solar system, and the solar system is sufficiently small that I would expect it to be cheap to get results.
