Some of the people who responded have definitely watched too much television and seen too many science fiction movies.

Maybe E.T knows who shot J.R. 

My name is Fox Mulder. This is my work. 

See the movie "Species" yet?, I want a girlfriend like that!!  { Clinic Note: You must have left before the movie was finished.}

So we can get Samantha Mulder back! 

Space, the final frontier 

CUZ THE CHICK IN THE 5th ELEMENT ARROUSED MY 6th SENSE !!! 

To Live long and Prosper with those aliens out there 

To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before... 

They Came From Outer Space!!! 

To meet Seven of Nine's sister!

To contact the BORG collective 

So I can have sex with more alien chicks than Kirk ever did... that and the screensaver is absolutely mezmorizing 

Some have more personal reasons as to why they are running the program.

To let my computer make a good deed when I'm not using it (I'm a boyscout-leader, you know...) 

To meet cute chicks. Doesn't seem to work very well, tho. 

To locate other intergalactic homebrewers 

To make religious nuts go crazy scurrying to fit it into their dogma 

So my friends will continue to think Im crazy 

To see which species Strom Thurmond actually belongs too.

Taxidermy is my hobby and I already have every terrestrial animal so I'll take any chance to augment my collection. 

To convince my girlfriend I am a freak! 

The dichotomy of Seti at Home.

The Truth is Out There 
The truth sometimes hurts 

Some are motivated by personal ambitions.

Misplaced IG transmitter/receiver. Must contact home base for transport home within next 150 years. Base may be transmitting in spectrum you are searching. That is all. 

My secret goal in life is to see Jupiter through the window of a spaceship... That might be too ambitious: I'll settle for Venus, but I want to stand on the surface. { Clinic Note: you won't be standing there too long!}

See how many units it'll take to bust my Intel CPU.

Research for my sci-fi book Returned to Sender 

Prove ELVIS isnt dead - long live the King baby! 

To be rich and have lots of fans, and lots of girls to prove that I'm a man. TO BE SOMEONE

To find the Fleet (which is coming) so we can prepare ourselves for the onslaught that is sure to ensue.

So I can stick it in my friends face that I found ET 

So I can say "I told you so."

So Roaches like myself may find an avenue to take control of the universe 

So I can legitimatly tell my friends I'm searching for aliens. {Clinic Note:  Does this mean that you have been searching on your own, prior to the Seti at Home project?}