APPENDIX N

UFO OPINION QUESTIONNAIRE

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The following statements all have to do with Unidentified Flying Objects -- often called "U-F-O's." One type of U-F-O is a "flying saucer." The statements are ideas, or opinions, not necessarily facts -- so people differ in the degree to which they believe them to be true or false.

For each of the statements shown below, please indicate the degree to which you feel the statement to be either true or false:

  1. Definitely false means that you are fully convinced the statement is false, and you would act without hesitation on this belief. You would question the wisdom of anyone who disagreed with you.

  2. Probably false means that you are not sure whether the statement is true or false, but that if you had to act on it, you would regard the statement as more likely false than true. Your opinion might be changed by discussion with another person.

  3. Probably true means that you are not sure whether the statement is true or false, but that if you had to act on it, you would regard the statement as more likely true than false. Your opinion might be changed by discussion with another person.

  4. Definitely true means that you are fully convinced that the statement is true, and you would act without hesitation on this belief. You would question the wisdom of anyone who disagreed with you.


To indicate your belief, place an X in the appropriate box next to the item. Do not skip any item.

      Definitely
    False     		Probably
    False     		Probably
    True     		Definitely
    True
  1. Some flying saucers have tried to communicate with us.
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  2. All UFO reports can be explained either as well understood happenings or as hoaxes.
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  3. The Air Force is doing an adequate job of investigation of UFO reports and UFOs generally.
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  4. No actual, physical evidence has ever been obtained from a UFO.
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  5. A government agency maintains a Top Secret file of UFO reports that are deliberately withheld from the public.
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      Definitely
    False     		Probably
    False     		Probably
    True     		Definitely
    True
  1. No airline pilots have seen UFOs.
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  2. Most people would not report seeing a UFO for fear of losing a job.
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  3. No authentic photographs have ever been taken of UFOs.
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  4. Persons who believe they have communicated with visitors from outer space are mentally ill.
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  5. The Air Force has been told to explain all UFO sightings reported to them as natural or man-made happenings or events.
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  6. Earth has been visited at least once in its history by beings from another world.
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  7. The government should spend more money than it does now to study what UFOs are and where they come from.
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  8. Intelligent forms of life cannot exist elsewhere in the universe.
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  9. Flying saucers can be explained scientifically without any important new discoveries.
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  10. Some UFOs have landed and left marks in the ground.
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  11. Most UFOs are due to secret defense projects, either ours or another country's.
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  12. UFOs are reported throughout the world.
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  13. The government has done a good job of explaining UFO reports.
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  14. There have never been any UFO sightings in Soviet Russia.
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  15. People want to believe that life exists elsewhere than on Earth.
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  16. There have been good radar reports of UFOs.
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      Definitely
    False     		Probably
    False     		Probably
    True     		Definitely
    True
  1. There is no government secrecy about UFOs.
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  2. People have seen space ships that did not come from this planet.
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  3. Some UFO reports have come from astronomers.
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  4. Even the most unusual UFO report could be explained by the laws of science if we knew enough science.
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  5. People who do not believe in flying saucers must be stupid.
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  6. UFO reports have not been taken seriously by any government agency.
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  7. Government secrecy about UFOs is an idea made up by the newspapers.
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  8. Science has established that there are such things as "Unidentified Flying Objects."
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