Polling Firm: YouGov UAP Polls
Welcome to the most comprehensive repository of UAP and UFO Polling Data. This archive serves as a centralized hub for researchers, journalists, and enthusiasts to track the evolving discourse surrounding UAP transparency, scientific analysis, and legislative developments across the globe. Our scope includes all polls we have found over the years on this topic including those from top name polling firms like Gallup, Pew and YouGov as well as those published by lesser names.
This particular page is a small subset of the overall archive. Visit our UAP Polling Hub Page to view the complete archive.
Our focus is on building a complete catalog of public polling on the UAP topic from the past through the current year. As we conduct our daily searches for UAP related news as seen on our front page, it is relatively easy for us to identify and catalog the wide variety of UAP / UFO related polls as they are published. Our poll archive goes back to 2005 with this Gallup poll on the topic. While we retain links to these past events, be aware that some of these links will no longer point to an existing web page.
Aliens and UFOs | YouGov Poll: September 9 – 12, 2022
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YouGov
Polling Date:
2022-09-09
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This 2022 YouGov poll finds that skepticism regarding the existence of aliens had declined since the 1990s, when — according to a 1996 poll by Newsweek — only 20% of Americans believed that Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) were more likely to be proof of alien life than to have a natural scientific explanation (32%). Today, 34% of Americans believe UFOs are likely alien ships or life forms, while only 32% say they’re likely to have a scientific explanation.
Most Americans say the government isn’t open about UFOs
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YouGov
Polling Date:
2024-03-10
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More than 60% of Americans believe the U.S. government is concealing information about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), despite a recent Pentagon report claiming no signs of alien life.
Half of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth
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YouGov
Polling Date:
2025-11-04
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New YouGov polling finds that most Americans believe aliens exist, and many think that aliens have paid a visit to Earth in recent years. Americans are more likely to believe alien encounters would have a negative effect on human civilization than to think it would have a positive effect, and many believe that aliens would bring new diseases and unintentional harm or outright hostility to people if we were to encounter them.
