10/97Percentage of Americans who believe they have seen a UFO: 11

Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll (N.Y.C)

    Points by which this falls short of the percentage who believe the July Mars landing was a fake: 6

Washington Post poll

3/95Ratio of American adults under 35 who believe Social Security will exist when they retire to those who believe in UFOs: 3:5

Third Millennium (N.Y.C.)

9/03Number of females on the American Film Institute’s list of the fifty greatest movie villains, aliens included: 15

American Film Institute (Los Angeles)

    Number on its list of the fifty greatest movie heroes, Lassie included: 7

American Film Institute (Los Angeles)

11/98Price a Houston company charges for sending a DNA sample into outer space for possible cloning by aliens: $50

Encounter 2001 LLC (Houston)

6/07Number of UFO sightings in France since 1950, according to newly released French government documents: 1,650

Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (Paris)

    Portion of these sightings that France has classified as inexplicable: 1/4

Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (Paris)