But I am sure life exists elsewhere in universe.

Thousands of expert witnesses brave skeptics scorn from all sides to report UNidentified Flying Objects. ...add to them civilian lay witnesses and many people knowing one or more of those witnesses choose to believe that censorship is preventing a consensus conclusion

As someone else said, unidentified flying objects do certainly exist. I agree with NerdyOkieDude and evidentialist regarding the more popular belief in UFO's.

I would like to know there are real, but other than a couple of odd personal experiences I have had, I could prove neither they are or are not real. I would more so be interested in considering alternate realities, transdimensional possibilities. Lol

I'm an atheist. I think it pretty likely that there are life forms on distant worlds out there but I have never come across any valid evidence to suggest that any of them have put any unidentified flying objects in our sky. So I am inclined to believe that UFOs have nothing to do with aliens.

Some people can be a critical thinker about one subject and not on the next. I've met atheists who believe in ghosts/spirits, astrology, and even aspects of religion like re-incarnation. It seems even in the skeptic community evidence is not that important to certain people.

What I find troubling and fascinating at the same time that those Atheist who think that the UFOs are a bunch of nonsense, are just like the people they hate, the fundamentalist Christian conservatives also treat this topic almost the same way. I say almost because they actually believe in invisible deities and call this subject the "devils work" and also want nothing to do with it. Remember the Stargate program, the remote viewing program that was canceled. Well here's the thing about that program, it produced results, bone chilling results. But what many people here don't read about is that it wasn't the skeptical science community that put a stop to the program. It was the Fundamentalist Christians Conservatives who wanted nothing to do with the program calling it the "Devils Work." So my question here to all those who hate Fundamentalist religious nuts, why are you agreeing with them when this program worked? And if you're going to disagree with me, please provide links or book titles as your sources of evidence.

This just in! Extraterrestrials have invaded California! All part of their twisted plot to subjugate humanity, AKA Plan 9 From SpaceX!

Good poll, but your question presupposes that ONLY atheists are on this site. While most of us are, I've seen a few believers, or at least agnostics.

But my friend visited this plant 65 million years ago. Well, OK, she didn't personally visit but her species did. Well, not her species but one of them. Look, the point is: ... stop it, Sacha! Just stop it OK?

I know of no evidence for this planet having been visited by extraterrestrials that would stand up in a court of law. Nevertheless I voted "Agnostic About UFOs" because I believe the odds against any extraterrestrial civilization existing somewhere are extremely low and crossing the gulf between stars, while it may be beyond our current technology, is obviously possible. Why any alien would want to embark on such a difficult and expensive journey is another question entirely, but a cigar shaped rock just did it, with no evident help from anything except the forces of nature. Of course, the life support requirements of a rock are considerably easier to meet than those of any complex animal of which we have knowledge.

Can we please discriminate between UFO's and flying saucers.

The former are like that crow who flew across my lawn. I didn't recognise him nor his species. Only his wrawwwrrkkk.

The latter are machines sent by my friend from her planet. (To be fair, she doesn't send them. because we're far too boring.)

check out the raeliens, a religion that believe life on this planets was started by aliens

There are indeed UFOs. The overwhelming majority of sightings have succumbed to simple, natural explanation, therefor becoming IFOs. I have heard various numbers ranging from 1% to 5% of all sightings remain unexplained. I doubt that the unexplained sightings amount to anywhere near 5% and the actual number I suspect is between 1% and 2%. Whatever the real number is, the unknowns remain unknown.

People, not all but many, have an uncanny talent in that they can always find an agency for any phenomenon.

Lighting = god(s) or demons

UFO = aliens or demons

The first one was cleared up long ago, and not even the conspiracy nuts can come up with some replacement or government coverup for lightning. When it comes to UFOs ... look out. We have greys, blues, golden-haired Nordic types, reptilians, etc. After all this time and in spite of the empty evidence bucket, the market for intelligently operated UFOs is still strong. The poor critters are held responsible for how we became human, cattle mutilations, abductions with the attendant anal probes, building the pyramids, and walking among us as they take over the government. They've been visiting us forever, they tell us.

This is not the same as believing in the supernatural, to be sure, but it certainly is as nonsensical. Sightings do warrant investigation. Any phenomenon that is seen should be looked into, but it ought to be done responsibly and without presupposition. I'm a long time avid amateur astronomer, starting in 1947, who has spent more than half of all those nights from then until now, looking up. I've seen a couple of things that still defy explanation -- unknowns. Everything else has been identified. Most within a couple of days.

So, here's an example of a sighting. It was one of the strangest things I've ever seen and it went like this. We had just finished dinner and the kids had gone to their rooms. My wife and I were chatting in the kitchen when my mother-in-law shouts from the front porch and demands that we join her to see this ... this thing in the sky.

The sun was just dipping below the horizon and the sky had darkened a bit. There to the north of us and about 20 degrees above the horizon was a glowing object traveling back and forth across the sky through an angle of about 10 degrees or so. At each end of its transit, it would go from oblong to a small, round shape, then extend itself and retrace its original track. It also appeared to be randomly changing colors. It was completely silent.

Sounds really strange, right? My mother-in-law insisted it was a UFO and she was actually frightened. No astronomer worth a damn is ever without some sort of instrument. I stepped inside and grabbed my trusty 20 x 50 binoculars, raised them to my eyes and lo and behold, what should I see but the Goodyear blimp, its sides ablaze with colored lights circling lazily over UTEP stadium for the football game. What a letdown. Some of the neighbors had a hard time accepting what I told them until they got their own augmented peek. I know. I know. The aliens had disguised their ship as a blimp, right?

I have seen UFO's (I wasn't able to identify it therefore it's a UFO). Personally, it makes more sense to believe in Sentient beings who have possibly been around for millions of years longer than I have than believe in an imaginary friend.

Also, it makes no sense to think that we're the only people in this HUGE universe.

I consider extraterrestrial spacecraft having visited Earth to be unlikely given what we think we know so far about traveling such vast distances and with absolutely no supporting evidence of such visitation.

I'm an agnostic atheist, so I can't answer your poll.

It's complicated. It is a bit of hypocrisy to not believe in God yet be so gullible about the existence of UFOs.

First of all, let's distinguish between UFOs and extra-terrestrial life. UFOs are, by definition, real: Unidentified Flying Objects. They do in fact exist; the question is whether they are weather balloons or are ET in nature.

The physical limits imposed by the speed of light make the ET explanation unlikely. Perhaps there are ways to overcome these limitations, but that's a moot issue until we understand what they are. To summarize, I believe we are not alone in the universe, but am also skeptical that we have ever been visited by them in the form of UFOs.

I think you need to refine your question as Nerdy said UFO means unidentified flying object and nothing else whether they are natural or man made or an illusion if it is seen and you cannot identify it is a UFO, who am I to call you a liar.