When it comes to UFOs, the truth is out there—and your college professor might think so too. An academic survey published on Monday in the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications found that roughly a fifth of tenured and tenure-track faculty across 144 research universities in the U.S. reported sightings of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP), the official U.S. government term for UFO. The survey also found that the majority of academics believe that academic research and evaluation into UAP is important. “Results indicate several implications for UAP research generally,” Marissa Yingling, a psychology researcher at the University of Louisville, told The Daily Beast in an email. “Faculty across disciplines are cautiously willing to engage in the UAP topic, many are interested in conducting research, and the credibility of those who initially engage with the topic as well as funding are important factors for faculty.” The participants who responded that they had seen UAP were given an opportunity to share their stories, which ranged in a variety of different ways. “I saw an unidentified object as a child in (state redacted) (with my sibling)—which my parents didn’t believe,” one respondent said in the survey. “The news reported that others saw it…
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One in Five Academics Report Seeing a UFO, Survey Says