If you think the government isn’t hiding any information about UFOs, then you are in the minority, as a new poll has found that more than 57% of U.S. voters think there is more to the story.
The poll of 1,500 eligible U.S. voters was conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies and shared with Newsweek. It found that almost three out of every five Americans think the government is hiding information about UFOs.
According to the survey, 21% said they did not think anything was being hidden from the public, and 22% reported not knowing either way.
The poll comes as the federal government has begun investigating reports of UFOs, or UAPs, more seriously, with the military working to destigmatize reporting strange occurrences that go unexplained.
It also follows recent reporting of Congress’ Unidentified Aerial Phenomena task force, or All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, by David Grusch, a former member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
In June, Grusch, who spent time on the task force, told NewsNation that the U.S. government had recovered nonhuman origin technical vehicles, or “spacecraft,” for decades. He also claimed the government had retrieved bodies from other species.
“I have plenty of senior former intelligence officers that came to me, many of which I knew almost my whole career, that confided in me that they were part of a program,” Grusch said.
The Newsweek poll asked about the claims made by Grusch, to which 34% said they believed them, 30% did not, and 36% did not know. Still, 40% said they supported looking into the claims.
The Pentagon has commented on the claims, saying the “AARO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”
However, some members of Congress have come forward asking to investigate the claims.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) recently said he has heard similar claims from officials with “high clearances.”
“What I think we owe is just a mature understanding, listening and trying to put all these pieces together and just intake the information without any prejudgment or jumping to any conclusions,” Rubio said.
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