This made me think. Its talking about what would happen if we picked up an Alien signal:

Quite what would happen if we for our part did receive a signal is unclear.

"There is a protocol, buried away in the United Nations," says Dr Shostak. "The President would be told first, after the signal was confirmed by other observatories. But we couldn't keep such a discovery secret."
Yeah right! Im sure the Government would be straight onto CNN broadcasting that world wide.