"Belief in UFOs is not as marginal as one might think. As part of the publicity push for Taken -- Steven Spielberg's recently aired 10-part miniseries chronicling the UFO abductions in three different families over 50 years -- the SCI FI cable channel sponsored a Roper poll.

The survey revealed that 72 percent of Americans believe the government knows more about UFOs and extraterrestrials than it's passing on to the public. Still, UFOs, extraterrestrials and the people who love them often serve as stock straw men for the media. With a tone of orchestrated paranormality, sensational reports typically focus on accounts of sightings and abductions with speculation on the alien agenda. Often missing are any reports on how diverse the world of UFO research actually is. As is the case in just about any broad movement, Ufologists fall into numerous and often conflicting camps."

This was taken from an interesting article by John Dicker which deals with Ufologist and the belief in weird things in general.

"Nowhere on these pages will a clean-cut Air Force retiree unearth three decades of "suppressed" evidence exposing the bizarre and tenuous connections between extraterrestrials, the Cosa Nostra, and the assassination of our 35th president."

~~ John Dicker, 'The Aliens Among Us'