>>1376404

Belief that extraterrestrial intelligence exists is >50% worldwide, FellowAnon.

Not that UFOs are the same issue as ET intelligence, but there are lots of UFO sightings outside of North America. That's why you'll find UFO groups in INdonesia, Hong Kong, Perth, South Africa, you name it.

Most academic astronomers will admit now that the odds life only developed on Earth are very small. Thus, believing in alien life is not a fringe idea the way the MSM tries to cast it. The more fruitful question is, what is the MSM trying to hide by belittling the question of ETI?

>>1376561

It's hard to say exactly, because groups like the National UFO Reporting Center have only been operating for a few decades. Certainly there were UFO sightings in the U.S. in the 19th century (the Aurora, Texas case being a famous one; but also lots of cases in Ohio, Missouri, California back then…).

And if one goes back to medieval and Renaissance Europe, we see UFOs in paintings and described in some of the gazzettes/newspapers of those centuries. It's not easy to say what proportion of the population saw them, though, because statistics weren't being kept the way they are now.

Another issue with UFO or alien encounters in ancient to medieval times is that back then, many people interpreted their experience as a religious vision rather than an alien encounter. A good example would be the vision recorded by the prophet Ezekiel. Some would even compare the Virgin Mary's meeting with 'angels' and subsequent 'mysterious pregnancy' with modern cases of 'alien abduction' including a reproductive surgical procedure leading to pregnancy with a special/unusua/alien-hybrid child.