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Ok but seriously, when controlling for people being trolls or believing anything they still got 15% of people believing a government conspiracy to cover up aliens visiting earth?
There's a very common belief that an alien spacecraft crashed in the states back in the fifties, or even that the US government restored it to working order and flew it.
I suspect this belief was encouraged by the government at the time, but it's a very common belief.
But we have proof.
I guess I just thought, or at least hoped, that it was a US thing.
It's honestly not the dumbest thing someone could believe, not by a long shot.