But the truth of the statement runs deeper than poster slogans or simple staging for a sci-fi television thriller. The majority of people around the world say they want to believe, refering, of course, to belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life.
The greatest concentration of believers appear to live in either the United States (70.4%), the southern half of South America (69.7%), and in China (69.5%). Not far behind are Europe (68.3%), Japan (68.1), Korea (67.7), Russia (67.7), Australia (66.8) and India (64.1%). In fact, if you averaged it out worldwide you would still come up with well over 50% of the population of Earth believes extraterrestrial life exists out there somewhere.
That's a lot of people by any standard. Even if you argue that the number of people that believe in extraterrestrial life (57.3%) and the numer of people who believe ET-life has visited our Mother Earth (48.2%) are two totally different questions and concepts, it is still a lot of people. And that's not even considering the number of people who say they don't necessarily believe, but they want to believe. If you were to add that percentage to the number that actually believe in ET-life, you would discover that less than 22% of the world's population firmly don't believe intelligent ET-lifeforms have visited Earth, and less than 10% believe there is no intelligent life off planet.
Perhaps the human species is not as closed minded as some would have us believe. For example, ask any person genuinely claiming to have experienced a UFO or alien sighting, or any one claiming to have been abducted, and you will find that these poeple generally believe that most of the rest of us don't believe in ET-life, when the statistics indicate the opposite.
Think about it. If you were to have such an experience, you wouldn't go on local television and tell the world about it. You would be reluctant to talk about it in fear of ridicule and criticism. at least that's how most of feel.
Not that I'm going anywhere with this line of thought, except, perhaps, to illustrate that we are not really alone in believing what we believe about extraterrestrial life and the possiblity that visitors from off world have indeed made footprints in our sand. We just think we are in the minority.
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