In June 2021, 65% of U.S. adults told the Pew Research Center that their best guess was that intelligent life exists on other planets. That result provides the clearest starting point for understanding Americans’ views on aliens and UFOs because it measures belief in extraterrestrial intelligence separately from belief about unexplained objects observed near Earth.
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