Polling Region: Global 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.
Making sense of the extraordinary – An investigation of the content and prevalence of appraisals of nonordinary experiences
Polling Organization:
Other
Polling Date:
2025-09-01
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Poll Question 2:
Description and Results:
Note: This Polling data is housed in a paper at journals.plos.org
Individuals around the world report nonordinary experiences that stand out to them compared to their day-to-day or ordinary experiences. Yet, they can be appraised in very different ways, resulting in wellbeing and personal growth, or in marginalization and mental health problems. One challenge is that there are relatively few systematic efforts to explore possible appraisal processes and the overall contextual features of these experiences. In study 1, we report a validation and extension of a previously designed set of appraisal and contextual questions to the Inventory of Nonordinary Experiences, with a sample of Brazilian participants (N = 160). The study successfully validated all original appraisal categories with minor modifications and added nine new context and appraisal categories. In study 2, we conducted a prevalence study by administering these questions in a general population sample (N = 5,117) in which individuals reported on one of 38 nonordinary experiences. Most contextual features and appraisals followed a unimodal distribution approximating a normal distribution. This suggests that nonordinary experiences, however heterogeneous they may be, appear to be interpreted within the same set of beliefs and appraisals, in addition to sharing similar temporal characteristics. Furthermore, although 20% of participants reported an immediate negative impact and 25% reported some degree of suffering or discomfort from experiences, 51% evaluated experiences as promoting overall positive long-term life effects. These findings highlight the potential of human resilience and the complex role of nonordinary experiences vis-a-vis protective factors in promoting health. Our results provide new insights into consciousness states and their mental health and wellbeing implications.
Do aliens exist? We studied what scientists really think
Polling Organization:
Other
Polling Date:
2024-02-01
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Description and Results:
We conducted four surveys among researchers regarding the likely existence of basic, complex, and intelligent extraterrestrial life. Our results offer a snapshot of community opinion and reveal a significant degree of consensus that extraterrestrial life is likely to exist. This is a paper at Nature Astronomy. It’s firewalled, but we provide a link for those who have access to nature.com.
Majority of Humanity Say We Are Not Alone in the Universe
Polling Organization:
Other
Polling Date:
2026-01-01
Poll Question 1:
There is some form of life on other planets
Poll Question 2:
believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations in the universe
Description and Results:
This is polling by an organization called Glocalities: https://glocalities.com/
Information on the poll is available via two articles provided in the two links on this page.
Results:
– 61% of people believe that there is some form of life on other planets.
– 47% of people believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations in the universe.
