Beyond Disclosure Day: The Real-World Protocols

Beyond Disclosure Day: The Real-World Protocols PRESS RELEASE DATE June 5, 2026 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI Institute rmcdonald@seti.org Image Credit: SETI Institute Prof. Michael Garrett, IAA SETI Committee Chair June 5, 2026,... More

Beyond Disclosure Day: The Real-World Protocols PRESS RELEASE DATE June 5, 2026 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI Institute rmcdonald@seti.org Image Credit: SETI Institute Prof. Michael Garrett, IAA SETI Committee Chair June 5, 2026, Mountain View, CA –The IAA SETI Committee announced today ONLINE updated rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial Press Release/Image intelligence. https://tinyurl.com/3a8kdcfd A University of Manchester astronomer has led a major international overhaul of the rules that would govern how scientists announce evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence to the world. Professor Michael Garrett, the Sir Bernard Lovell Chair of Astrophysics, chaired a global effort to update the long-standing “post-detection protocols” used by researchers involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The updated guidelines have now been formally ratified by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). The r Less