By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:55 GMT, 22 March 2019 | Updated: 00:09 GMT, 23 March 2019
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We may not yet have found evidence of alien life, but that doesn’t mean it hasn't found us.
This is according to a group of scientists who gathered this week in Paris to discuss why, despite decades of searching and the high probability that life exists beyond our own atmosphere, we’ve yet to make contact.
One possibility, albeit unflattering, could be that intelligent aliens are intentionally shielding us from the truth because humans would struggle to cope with the reality of their existence, some say.
Researchers at the METI International meeting proposed that aliens could be keeping us in somewhat of a ‘galactic zoo,’ simply watching us without revealing themselves so as to avoid spurring cultural upset on Earth.
Despite decades of searching and the high probability that life exists beyond our own atmosphere, we’ve yet to make contact with extraterrestrial life. Scientists say that could be because they're hiding
Basic protocols for our first contact with aliens were put in place in the 1980s, but these are merely guidelines, rather than an action plan for dealing with alien contact.
Dr Seth Shostak, who leads the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute's efforts to detect radio signals from alien civilisations, has previously said a more detailed action plan must be put in place.
In November last year he said our current response to aliens 'would be like the Neanderthals having a plan in case the US Air Force showed up.'
In the 1990s, Dr Shostak chaired a committee that
