A recent National Geographic study finds that 80 million Americans believe in UFOs and one in 10 believe they've seen one, according to recent reports.
That translates to roughly a third of the U.S. population believing in unidentified flying objects. Roughly 80 percent surveyed believe the government has tried to cover up the existence of the flying spacecraft.
Read the full story on USAToday.com.
And here's some fuel for the comments section: 65 percent of survey respondents believe President Barack Obama would be better suited over Mitt Romney to handle an alien invasion.
So give us your opinion. Do you believe in UFOs? If you've got a story to tell, post it in the comments section.
Fisher
10:22 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Obama 2012! Yet another reason. Ha. I don't believe all those whack jobs that say they've seen UFOs, but there's gotta be life in other galaxies. Maybe we'll live long enough to see it, but I doubt we've been visited yet. Pretty interesting stuff.
Lindsay Street
11:20 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
I would love to believe in UFOs, but I also find it hard to believe a civilization conquered intergalactic space travel to just sneak around another planet and not announce themselves.
I do think there are other civilizations out there, but I also know the technology needed for the kind of travel needed is not going to be easy to come by — if it is feasible at all.
stanley seigler
11:48 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
i've seen em right next to flying pigs...and they have been around since the sun stopped revolving around the 4500 year old, flat earth.
while pondering existence of UFOs, one may ponder what happens when you fall off the edge of universe...also/and will we be with 'alice in wonderland' if we fall into a black hole...OTOH;
are we there yet...can we even begin to comprehend the universe and parallel universes...the grand scale (or even our small scale) of the possible...or impossible.
reg
11:52 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
I think some of inlaws are aliens. really.
Ken
12:59 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The question as posed is kind of vague.
Do I believe that there are objects in the sky that some people cannot identify? Yes.
Are these objects alien spacecraft from another world? No.
Does life on other worlds exist? Probably, it is ridiculous to think that our little world is the only place in the entire universe where life exists.
Have aliens from other worlds visited Earth? Probably not, there is nothing to indicate such a visitation has ever occurred.
Jonathan Allen
3:25 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
so you mean that History Channel series Ancient Aliens isn't really a documentary?
I think you're probably right Ken. There are things flying around out there that most people can't identify, but those things probably aren't alien (extraterrestrial not from south of the border) spacecraft - so someone, somewhere knows what they are.
And given the billions of stars in our galaxy alone, and the fact that we're discovering the formation of planets around those stars is not uncommon, the likelihood that other forms of life have developed elsewhere is pretty high. And that's just within the Milky Way, there are millions of other galaxies out there as well, so statistically it is almost certain that other life exists in the universe. The question of whether any of that life is "intelligent" as we would define it and capable of producing the technology to traverse interstellar space is a much trickier proposition, and all we can say about it right now is we don't know. I'm hopeful that we aren't alone as an intelligent and technologically advanced race, but I also hope that if anyone else is out there, we don't meet them until our technology is equal to or superior to theirs. I think it was Stephen Hawking that pointed out that in human history when a technologically superior groups meets a more primitive one, the results are rarely positive for the more primitive group.
stanley seigler
5:31 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
@Johnthan Allen: "I think it was Stephen Hawking that pointed out that in human history when a technologically superior groups meets a more primitive one, the results are rarely positive for the more primitive group."
disagree with hawking (who do i think i am). he compares, an advanced civilation, space aliens, to we human aliens screwing the indians (trail of tears, etc)...tend to believe the space aliens would be more advanced...OTOH
perhaps they would consider us insects to be sprayed with DDT...someone, many years ago, suggested we were a science project (an ant colony) for an alien first grader...anyway;
apologies for disagreeing with hawking..he is my hero...especially like his thought:
"If we do discover a complete theory [theory of everything], it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone... Then we shall all be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason for then we would know the mind of God." A Brief History of Time (last paragraph)...ie;
know God face to face...
John H
8:58 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
If an alien civilization advances technology to the point where they achieve interstellar travel, maybe sociologically they advanced to the point where they respect all creation, avoiding contact, and letting us find our own way, uninterrupted. Or maybe we’re just not that interesting in the grand scheme of things.
I wonder if they believe in God.
p
3:44 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Why does there have to be a reason why we exist?
Dedric D. Owens
12:08 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012
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Jim Jackson
12:29 am on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Back in 1991, I saw a large group of red craft in the sky about 3am at a high altitude. Being in the Navy at the time, I'd seen many types of aircraft. These were different and I had never seen so many at one time. There must have been over 30 of them...dull red lights; no formation, but they created a low rumble that actually shook the ground slightly I was standing on that slowly faded as I Iost sight of them. I called the Hilton Head airport, also the near by marine air base to ask if they had seen anything or had anything at all on their radar...nothing sighted or spotted I was told...How could they miss that?
I remember something strange my father told me before he died of brain cancer from ajent orange: we were talking about Roswell, and Dad, being in the CID, he had a very high level top secret clearance. He told me once he had seen paperwork describing transfer of something from the base he was working on to another base and civilian contractor that was hoped would advance our stelth program. He laughed and said..."where the hell do you think it came from our stelth program?"