Poll: A Majority of Americans Are Preparing For an Extraterrestrial Invasion
by Jazz Shaw February 12, 2018 (hotair.com)
• A Marist Poll released February 12th (Marist Institute for Public Opinion, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY) shows a major trend in American’s belief in UFOs.
• According to the poll, 68% of Americans think there is intelligent life on other planets (up from 52% in 2005). 74% of those believers think that ETs are at least as intelligent as humans, and 46% believe that ET intelligence exceeds that of humankind.
• Young Americans (under 45) and men are most likely to believe in intelligent ETs, although every demographic group rank believers at least in the low 60 percentile. Therefore, across the board, belief in intelligent extraterrestrials is now the majority opinion in America.
• The question remains, do more people believe in ETs, or are more people just willing to admit it?
The aliens are coming, and this time I don’t mean the ones from El Salvador looking to join the local chapter of MS-13.
There’s a new Marist poll out this week which shows a surprising shift in public opinion. An increasing number of Americans, adding up to a significant majority at this point, believe that the truth is out there. Perhaps not in the sense that Fox Mulder would have it, but they do believe that there’s other intelligent life in the universe. Not only that, but the extraterrestrials are probably at least as smart as us, if not smarter, and they’re probably going to find us before we find them. Unless, of course, they already have.
Many Americans (68%) think there is intelligent life on other planets, up from 52% in 2005. Nearly three in four residents with that belief (74%) say those extraterrestrials are at least as intelligent as human beings. In fact, this includes a plurality (46%) who think the intelligence of extraterrestrials exceeds that of the human race. These results have changed little in more than a decade. But, are these otherworldly beings coming to get us? A majority (55%) say they will find us before we find them.
Younger Americans (under 45) and men are the most likely to believe that ET is out there, but even older citizens and women are believers. All groups are ringing up numbers at least in the low sixties. A majority of the younger respondents said the aliens will find us before we discover them, while 45% of older Americans thought so.
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