50% Britons Believe in Captive Space Aliens (38% Believe 9/11 Bushes Doing)

Web India 123 ^ | 07.31.2008 | ANI

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Almost 50 percent of British adults believe in captive space aliens, and topping the list of such generally-held truths is a secret plot to harbour aliens at a remote military base in a desert in the United States, says a new survey.

The online poll was conducted to coincide with the UK cinema release of 'I Want to Believe', the second X-Files film, which aimed to uncover the most popular conspiracy theories.

The survey uncovered that almost fifty percent of respondents believe there is some truth in the legend of Area 51, which holds that Groom Lake, in Nevada, was a covert base for extra-terrestrial studies, after a spaceship crashed there in the 1950s.

A large number of Britons believe the stories about sophisticated spacecraft, "footage" of grey aliens, and testimonies from former employees passed down through the years. All this has helped convince them about the "Roswell incident".

In fact, more than one in three respondents (38 per cent) believe that the 9/11 atrocity was part of a US government plot to create an excuse to invade and Afghanistan.

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I suppose a number of Brits are like one of my Brit in-laws who read a book by Michael Moore about the 2000 election and believed everything in it. That included the part where Moore claimed (falsely) cops intimidated Black people from voting. I don’t know if it’s a willingness to believe the worst or that’s just the info available to them.

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Thanks for the ping. I’m a little surprised that these percentages weren’t higher.