The SETI Circus: A Year of Silence on the New 2025 Protocols

I’ve been scrolling through the SETI Institute’s official LinkedIn updates, and frankly, it’s an absolute circus. We are in late 2026, and their page looks like a time capsule from Frank Drake’s 1960s radio telescope room. “Mysterious fast radio bursts toward galaxy clusters…” Seriously? Are we still playing with outdated radio protocols while completely ignoring the paradigm shift happening right under our noses?

Waht???

Let’s talk facts: Exactly one year has passed since November/December 2025, when the SETI Permanent Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) pushed forward the new Declaration of Principles and Post-Detection Protocols. (2:23) Top astrophysicists, like Dr. Alexander Panov (who personally signed it back in December 2025), openly discussed that this new framework was generated specifically to adapt to the modern digital information age and to officially widen the scope of what we call technosignatures. (2:23)

The 2025 protocols explicitly highlight that SETI is no longer just about waiting for an archaic narrow-band radio signal. It includes optical laser communication, anomalous infrared excesses, and structural anomalies in deep-space astronomical surveys. (1:02:20)

So, where is the data? Where are the updates on the new search methods? Where are the posts about the groundbreaking work being done with optical SETI, tracking nanosecond Cherenkov pulses on all-sky monitors like the TAIGA-HiSCORE array, or analyzing the thousands of unexplainable transient anomalies captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory? (19:46)

Silence. The institutional “Copenhagen club” remains selectively blind. They keep feeding their followers sterile, safe, grant-friendly content about standard gravity and nebula noises because admitting the new protocols means admitting they’ve been looking in the wrong place with the wrong tools for decades (25:22).

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Now I completely understand why Avi Loeb slammed the door on this bureaucratic echo chamber and launched his own independent project. Loeb realized that if you want to find actual interstellar artifacts or anomalies, you don’t wait for permission from a committee that hides raw data — you go out, fund your own sensors, and scan the sky yourself.

While the official SETI channels are busy pretending it’s still 1989, independent science is already moving into subspatial quantum networks and optical tracking. It’s time to stop funding the illusion of work and start looking at the real data.

Links:

1. Video Interview: Avi Loeb is Wrong? Alien Contact Protocol. Vladimir Surdin & Alexander Panov (Dec 25, 2025) (2:23).
2. IAA SETI Permanent Committee Official Documents (2025–2026) — (2:23).
3. Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI IAA) (3:14).
4. TAIGA Astrophysical Complex & Optical SETI Reports (2025) (30:50).