They walk among us: 1 in 5 believe in aliens?

[Kadie]

They walk among us: 1 in 5 believe in aliens?
1 hr 14 mins ago

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Aliens exist and they live in our midst disguised as humans -- at least, that's what 20 percent of people polled in a global survey believe.

The Reuters Ipsos poll of 23,000 adults in 22 countries showed that more than 40 percent of people from India and China believe that aliens walk among us disguised as humans, while those least likely to believe in this are from Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands (8 percent each).

However, the majority of people polled, or 80 percent, don't believe aliens in our midst.

"It would appear that that there's a modest correlation between the most populated countries and those more likely to indicate there may be aliens disguised amongst them compared with those countries with the smaller populations," said John Wright, Senior Vice President of market research firm Ipsos.

"Maybe the it's a simple case that in a less populated country you are more likely to know your next door neighbor better," he said.

More men than women -- 22 percent vs 17 percent -- believe that alien beings are on earth.

more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_aliens_odd



Wearing a hat shaped like a alien space craft, a man video tapes the arcade outside of the international UFO convention in Roswell, July 3.
REUTERS/David Ake

[Swamp Rat]

1. Shhhh!

:hide:

[LakeSamish706]

2. Lets just hope that these aliens are not Bush's or Cheney's or we really are in deep shit. n/t

[notadmblnd]

3. Yes, we call them conservatives/republicans

[RKP5637]

4. +1, n/t

[NeedleCast]

5. Proof that at least 1 in 5 people are idiots

[RT Atlanta]

6. Where's "Rowdy" Roddy Piper to help?!?

[salguine]

30. He went out to get some gum.

[onehandle]

7. The vastness of space and time makes it unlikely that any other species has made it to earth.

I don't doubt that there is other intelligence out there. Some may even had made it into space.

But to happen to get here to this one tiny speck?

Nope.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. If aliens ARE walking among us

you can bet your ass that repugs have already tried to cut a deal with them in order to serve their alien overlords as taskmasters over the rest of us. Would you expect anything LESS reprehensible from the ideological descendants of Nazi collaborators in Vichy France?

[HipChick]

9. Check out the book Walk-In by Ruth Montgomery...

aliens won't always look like what the Hollywood stereotypes

one prediction she made...

that America would have a "walk-in" as president in the 1990s, ("unsure which term, 1992 or 1996") before the Polar Shift, which was to happen "in the last months of the century" as it seemed to "the Guides."
In the late 1990s, the Guides predicted in her 1999 book, The World To Come, that the walk-in president would not come until 2008 at the earliest, and therefore the Shift would be delayed until 2010-2012 at least. The potential catastrophe of the shift was also reduced by human free will. E

[HipChick]

17. I hadn't thought of her in a while..but

She was a nationally known journalist in Washington DC, who covered presidential politics and knew presidents- she did not initially believe in any of this phenom. until she met Arthur Ford who proved it to he

[EnlightenedOne]

24. Wow

I haven't heard of Ruth Montgomery in ages - her books were my first introduction into all things metaphysical. But I totally forgot abou the walk-in revelation. There is no doubt in my mind that Obama is very highly evolved.

Some of the reactions here is the failure of a good education and buying the old government line - don't believe what you hear or see - believe us. They don't exist. Despite so much evidence to the contrary.

Science just proved that we're a universe within a universe and that parallell universes exist.

There are going to be a whole lot of surprised people in 2012.

[HipChick]

37. Exactly...its easier to keep a population blind to what might be..

just keeping feeding the old government line..

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Tin Foil helmut!

[Tailormyst]

11. I think that there probably is intelligent life out there in the universe

I think the universe is to large to assume we are the only ones. As for walking among us, I am more inclined to think they are not. If they had the technology to travel so far then they would not have any reason to hide.

[rcrush]

26. Maybe they are experimenting on us.

Maybe its like that South Park episode where Earth is a reality show. They see what stupid stuff we can do each week.

[Tailormyst]

32. heh

You have to admit- we do make amusingly stupid reality TV. I can see where they might get hooked ! I know I personally just love Smoking Gun's World's Dumbest.

[MrCoffee]

12. I went to Roswell for the 49th anniversary of the crash

It was awesome.

[Echo In Light]

13. I like ...

[HipChick]

16. I've met David a few times...

he's kinda way out there though on the edge..some of this material is interesting though..

[Echo In Light]

23. I would suppose so..although his early 90s books are very well sourced

[dflprincess]

14. "Men in Black" was not a documentary.

"Elvis didn't die, he just went home."

[hfojvt]

15. and they are often on TV

:scared:

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh011205.shtml

THIS JUST IN—FROM MARS: We’ve often said it—they can’t be human. And alas! Such thoughts crossed our minds once again on Tuesday morning as we read the front page of the Washington Post. Jim VandeHei reported on GOP congressmen who oppose Bush’s push for those private accounts. Here’s the passage that made us suspect, for the ten thousandth time, that our scribes come from far, distant planets:

VANDEHEI (1/11/05): "The politics of this are brutal," one senior GOP leadership aide said, adding that the White House has yet to convince most House members that the "third rail" of American politics is somehow safe.
Outside Congress, several party activists are sounding similar alarms after word spread last week that Bush is planning to reduce future benefits as part of the restructuring. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) is warning that Republicans could lose their 10-year House majority if the White House follows through with that proposal.

Incredible! According to VandeHei’s report, word began to spread “last week” that Bush would reduce future SS benefits. And VandeHei is hardly alone in making this odd presentation. In recent weeks, many journalists have seemed surprised by the “news” that Bush would reduce future benefits. Example: On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace posed this odd question to Senator Lindsey Graham:

WALLACE (12/12/04): Senator Graham, let me ask you about one aspect of these private retirement accounts that seemed to come out this week. If a worker decides to put some of his payroll taxes into this private account, does that mean that he would be giving up some of his guaranteed government benefits?
Weirdly, Wallace seems to have learned just last month that SS recipients would have to give up some of their guaranteed benefits.

Why are these presentations so strange? Simple. It has been perfectly clear since Campaign 2000 that Bush’s plan for private accounts would mean large cuts in guaranteed benefits. In the future, SS benefits will cost more than payroll taxes will provide, Bush said during Campaign 2K, citing standard budget analyses which he then interpreted wildly. “If we do nothing to reform the system, the year 2037 will be the moment of financial collapse,” the hopeful excitedly said. But what would Bush do to “reform the system?” He ruled out raising payroll taxes; indeed, he proposed diverting a large chunk of payroll taxes into his so-called “private accounts.” Under Bush’s plan, therefore, a good deal less revenue would flow into traditional SS. Obviously, it would take large cuts in guaranteed benefits to close the future revenue shortfalls—shortfalls which the hopeful decried as “Social Security’s greatest test.”"

[CoffeeCat]

18. I love the "V" series!

This series is awesome, and it's fun to just imagine and think
about "what if?"

That Anna is a bad ass! ...and now my children need nourishment. :scared:

[HughMoran]

19. I'm an alien

[HipChick]

27. Holla!..

[Echo In Light]

28. Our cats are inter-dimensional aliens, and they psychically will me to do their dark bidding

Oh, you may laugh ... but ....

:)

[HipChick]

34. I don't doubt that..

cats are weird..

[RC]

20. In Orson Well's "War of the Worlds", wasn't there a little problem with

microbes? Any place with 'life' is going to have them. What is benign to us or them will be deadly to the other.

[Fumesucker]

21. It's more likely that the microbes would just ignore the alien biochemistry..

In either direction..

[Fumesucker]

22. I don't think they are but it wouldn't shock me to find out it was true either..

I can think of a number of reasons aliens wouldn't want to reveal themselves to us if they were indeed here, some of those reasons benign, indeed praiseworthy, and some of them not so benign.

[rcrush]

25. I don't NOT believe it.

I haven't seen proof of aliens living on Earth but it would not surprise me one bit if they were here.

[BuckeyeX]

29. Aliens

It's easy to believe. There is more evidence for UFOs and aliens than there is for Jesus.

[TexasObserver]

31. More than that believe some of the most ridiculous commission conclusions.

Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

right

[mod mom]

33. This dude has to be a brother from another:

http://trololololololololololo.com/

[Iggo]

35. Even more than that believe in the other thing.

So I'm not that surprised.

[walldude]

36. Tin foil Star Destroyer!!

Awesome..

Looking up at the stars, anyone would be a fool to think we are the only intelligent life in the universe. But are they here? I doubt it. Looking forward to their arrival though. Talk about a massive shift in conscience...

I'm kind of hoping for a visit on the day the Mayans said the world would change forever.. I believe it's Dec 12 2012.

[war sucks]

38. nice hat!

[Obamanaut]

39. There MUST be aliens, otherwise the guy would not have known

what the alien space craft looks like.

[Phoonzang]

40. With sufficiently advanced technology I imagine an

alien race could construct artificial lifeforms that would be indistinguishable from the real thing and move around keeping an eye on us. So yeah, "they" could be walking among us. It doesn't have to be an artificial person...it could be a fly, a bird, a cockroach, etc. Not to say that they couldn't easily make an artifical human as well. Maybe this person wouldn't even know what they are...or maybe....ok, I'm going to stop now. :)

Anyway, the "they can't get here from there" argument is presumptuous nonsense.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

41. Please let them be the teabaggers/Reagan worshippers/Bush-Cheneyites

Then we can launch a mission to save civilization from the hordes of alien invaders and send them back to wherever they belong