First Gallup poll on flying saucers

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Weeks after Kenneth Arnold's report, a Gallup poll released in August 1947 found that about 90 percent of Americans had heard of flying saucers. Asked what they were, the largest groups gave no answer or called them illusions; others guessed U.S. secret weapons or hoaxes.

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  1. OfficialScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Sec. III, Ch. 7: Attitude Survey (Aldora Lee) (opens in a new tab)University of Colorado for the U.S. Air Force (Condon Report), copy hosted by NCAS / 1969
  2. OtherGallup poll, August 1947 (results table and commentary by Jan L. Aldrich) (opens in a new tab)Project 1947

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