Recent Polls About UFOs & Aliens - Growing Trends of
Beliefs
Part 1 Larry King ran a couple
of programs about a UFO sighting in Stephenville TX
a couple of years back, and on his website they
posted a poll simply asking people "Do you believe
in extra-terrestrial life?" It got an amazingly high
number of affirmative answers - 86% said yes. That's
the highest number I've ever seen on any similar
poll from a major media source.
![](2010-11-LarryKingaliensufos.jpg)
2008 Scripps UFO Poll tells us that 56% of Americans
overall believe it either "very likely" or "somewhat
likely" that intelligent life exists on other
planets, Sci-Fi channel's Roper Poll says 66%
believe in ET life.
2008 Scripps UFO Poll
By Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel |
2002 UFOs & ET Life Roper Poll
Commissioned by the Sci Fi Channel |
56% said
it is either "very likely" or "somewhat
likely" that intelligent life exists on
other planets.
74% of 18-24
year olds believed it was likely that
intelligent life exists on other planets.
33% of
adults, believe it's either very likely or
somewhat likely that intelligent aliens from
space have visited our planet.
8% said they,
personally, have seen a mysterious object in
the sky that might be a visitor from another
world.
|
66% of
Americans say they think there are other
forms of intelligent life in the universe
48% say they
believe that UFOs have visited the earth in
some form over the years
12% said they
or someone else they know has seen a UFO at
close quarters.
2% said
they have had an encounter with
extraterrestrial life |
Note that a whopping 74% of the 18-24 year-olds in
survey on the left believed intelligent life
elsewhere is likely.
All of these numbers are way higher than polls from
the 1940s and 50's through the 1990s have ever
reported, so with a result like today's 18-24 year
olds are weighing in at, you can just imagine where
the overall number is going to be in twenty more
years. 33-48% believe aliens have visited earth,
around 10% have seen a UFO, and on the right side
bottom, 2% believe they'd had an encounter with
extraterrestrial life.
Combining and averaging these polls into one, gives
you better than 3 out of 5 believe in life on other
planets, and 1 in 10 have seen a UFO.
![](2010-13.jpg)
There are other polls from Roper, USA Today, CNN,
and so on that put that last number - people who
believe they've had an abduction or contactee
experience - consistently at 2-3 percent in
scientific, credible source, polling. There's a very
good book title, based on The Air Force's Blue Book
Project's lead scientist astronomer J Allen Hynek’s
offhand answer to a journalist's question, who
guessed off the top of his head that the number of
contactees in America was one in forty, or 2.5
percent, way before more recent polls made the same
claim.
This last graph based on the
National UFO
Reporting Center database shows how
dramatically the numbers of people seeing and
reporting UFOs has increased also just since 1990...
![](2010-14-robin-hanson.jpg)
So 8 percent, 12 percent, splitting the difference,
as many as 1 out 10 people have seen a UFO. About
one in forty, maybe one in fifty, have had an
experience they identify as extra-terrestrial.
Something's definitely happening.
Before getting into some prominent Christian
views, let's see first what prominent non-Christian
researchers and scientists have said about this
phenomena over the years.
Part 2:
Secular Researchers' Findings
that UFO Activity is Not Extraterrestrial in Origin
|