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Originally Posted by zeek

A 1996 Gallup poll estimated that 71% of the people in the United States believed that the government was covering up information about UFOs. A 2002 Roper poll conducted for the Sci Fi channel reported that 56% thought UFOs were real craft and 48% that aliens had visited the Earth.

A 2001 Gallup Poll found that the general public embraced the following: 54% of people believed in psychic/spiritual healing, 42% believed in haunted houses, 41% believed in satanic possession.

Source: Wikipedia

That's a lot of fringe, Harold.

I don't know if those statistics are completely true, but anecdotally I hear pretty much the same from people I talk to (not that it's a real common topic . . .).