Yup. They're two very different questions: "Does alien life exist?" and, "Have we been visited by aliens?" If we assume that intelligent life is a fairly rare thing then we live in a detection bubble that is roughly 249 light years across (first radio signal sent in Dec. 1901). The odds of anyone hearing us are vanishingly small. The odds of that signal being interesting enough to follow up on even smaller, I would say.
My assumption is that intelligent life isn't a viable survival strategy, anyway, if it tends to result in a species like us.