Chart 1 detailing Scripps UFO poll findings
By Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel, Scripps Howard News Service

The following are selected findings from a survey of 1,003 adults conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center Ohio University from May 11-28. The project was funded by a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation. at

Do you think it is very likely, somewhat likely or unlikely that there is intelligent life on other planets?

Chart 2 detailing Scripps UFO poll
By Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel, Scripps Howard News Service

A survey of 1,003 adults conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that 8 percent said they, personally, have seen a mysterious object in the sky that might be a visitor from another world. Here is how different groups responded to the question.

Entire nation .................8

Men ............................ 10

Chart 3 on Scripps UFO poll
By Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel, Scripps Howard News Service

A survey of 1,003 adults conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that 56 percent say it is either "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that intelligent life exists on other planets. Here is how different groups responded to the question.

Entire nation ..................56%

Men ...............................62%

Who are the people who have seen a UFO?
By Daniel Collins, Scripps Howard News Service

Helen Rhine was 16 when she saw a UFO in Amarillo, Texas.

he had just finished watching a lunar eclipse at 2 a.m. one day in 1958.
Suddenly, she saw three lights traveling swiftly and silently in a V shape across the sky.

"I was instantly terrified," said Rhine, now 66 and a retired software engineer in Wylie, Texas.

Rhine's story is hardly unique.

Poll probes Americans' belief in UFOs, life on other planets
By Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel, Scripps Howard News Service

Most Americans say it is very likely or somewhat likely that humans are not alone in the universe and that intelligent life exists on other planets.

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