Polling Region: U.S. 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.
The United States of UFOs: What’s that in the Sky?
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Other
Polling Date:
2022-09-01
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Have we established the first contact yet? 37% of Americans believe U.S. scientists or officials have made contact with aliens already, and 43% believe we are on the brink of breaking through to our extraterrestrial neighbors. There’s a lot of faith in how the government is handling our potential overlords, too, as 3 in 5 Americans say the government is taking UFOs and aliens just seriously enough.
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.
Faculty perceptions of unidentified aerial phenomena
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Other
Polling Date:
2023-05-23
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In this national study—which is the first to thoroughlyexamine faculty evaluations, explanations, and experiences regarding UAP of which theauthors are aware—tenured and tenure-track faculty across 14 disciplines at 144 majorresearch universities (N = 1460) participated in a survey.
Americans think the government knows more about aliens than shared
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News Nation / Decision Desk
Polling Date:
2023-09-05
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Most Americans think the government is holding back information when it comes to aliens, according to a NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll released Tuesday.
Over 63% of those surveyed believe the U.S. government has more information about extraterrestrial life than has been shared publicly. Just 17% of respondents don’t think that’s the case.
There was almost no difference across the political spectrum. Most Democrats (62%), independents (65%) and Republicans (64%) think the government has more info. Younger respondents between the ages of 18 to 34 were the most likely to think so (69%).
Daily Mail UFO poll shows 40% think aliens have visited in last 50 years
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Other
Polling Date:
2023-09-15
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We put several UFO-themed questions to 1,000 voters following a series of unprecedented Congressional hearings and a NASA investigation into unidentified craft flying in our skies. More than seven in 10 Americans believe the Biden administration is withholding information about UFOs, a DailyMail.com poll has revealed. And nearly four in 10 think that Earth has been visited by aliens from another planet in the past fifty years, according to the survey.
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.
Do aliens exist? We studied what scientists really think
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Other
Polling Date:
2024-02-01
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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.
Nearly half of Americans think govt. is hiding UFO evidence
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News Nation / Decision Desk
Polling Date:
2025-04-23
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Close to half of all Americans think that the U.S. government is hiding information about the existence of unidentified flying objects, an exclusive NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll found.
Paranormal Phenomena Met With Skepticism in U.S.
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Gallup
Polling Date:
2025-05-01
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Americans are broadly skeptical about each of eight paranormal phenomena tested in a recent Gallup poll. Nearly half of U.S. adults, 48%, believe in psychic or spiritual healing. Slightly fewer, 39%, express a belief in ghosts, while between 24% and 29% say they believe in six other supernatural phenomena, including telepathy, communication with the dead, clairvoyance, astrology, reincarnation and witches.
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.
Surveys on the Existence of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
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Other
Polling Date:
2025-11-28
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This polling is in the form of a research paper by Omer Eldadi, Gershon Tenenbaum and Abraham Loeb.
Majority of Americans Believe There is Intelligent Life and Civilizations on Other Planets
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Ipsos
Polling Date:
2020-01-02
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A recent Ipsos poll reveals that more than six in ten
Americans believe there is life on other planets. While a majority (57%) think there is intelligent life
and civilizations on other planets, 26% of Americans believe that alien societies, if they exist, would
be similar to human societies. Moreover, nearly half (45%) agree that UFOs exist and have visited
the Earth, and more than one third (37%) say that humans will create permanent outer space
colonies within the next 80 years.
Paranormal America 2018 – Chapman University Survey of American Fears
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Other
Polling Date:
2026-01-01
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Aliens have come to Earth in modern times
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Aliens have visited Earth in our ancient past
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The Chapman University Survey of American Fears Wave 5 (2018) includes a battery of items on paranormal beliefs ranging from belief in aliens and psychic powers to Bigfoot and haunted houses.
Survey Questions Include:
1) Aliens have visited Earth in our ancient past 41.4%
2) Aliens have come to Earth in modern times 35.1%
UFOs: Nearly half of Americans think govt. is hiding evidence
Polling Organization:
News Nation / Decision Desk
Polling Date:
2025-04-23
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Do you believe the US Government is hiding information about the existence of UFOs?
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None
Description and Results:
This poll on U.S. political matters includes a single question on the UAP topic.: Do you believe government hides UFO information. The image links to the News Nation article, the link to polling data goes to Decision Desk Data.
Results:
44% believe government hides UFO information; 28% disagree
