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One in Five Academics Report Seeing a UFO, Survey Says

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“I used to tell people but they thought I was crazy or lying—so now I’m silent.”

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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.

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