Aliens Landed? A Portion of Austrians Say Yes
39 percent of Austrians believe that only Earth is inhabited and no life exists outside our planet. A quarter of those surveyed in a recent IMAS study think that simple life forms and organisms like bacteria exist elsewhere, 17 percent can also imagine more complex life forms outside of Earth, 14 percent comparable to humans, and 17 percent even superior intelligent beings.
Extraterrestrials and UFOs
People with lower formal education and individuals from rural areas are more likely to dismiss the existence of extraterrestrials according to IMAS. Five percent of those interviewed in person this April - 1,015 people, representative of the population aged 16 and over - claim to have already seen a UFO, while 88 percent have never observed one.
19 percent consider it likely that we humans on Earth will make contact with extraterrestrials in the next 50 years, while 71 percent are not convinced. 15 percent of respondents believe that extraterrestrials have already landed on Earth, whereas 74 percent deny this.
Arrival on Earth
If an extraterrestrial life form were to land on Earth and see us humans, 15 percent of respondents think that the extraterrestrials would find our appearance the most unusual. Eleven percent believe the aliens would find our behavior unusual, eight percent think this of our way of communication or language. Six percent believe the visitors from space would have a negative impression of us humans. Five percent each think they would be surprised that we wage wars and inflict suffering on each other, consider us to be not very advanced, find selfishness and poor treatment of each other, as well as hustle and stress, strange.
In general, 67 percent of respondents believe in a higher power, while 32 percent do not. 42 percent believe in God, three percent in multiple gods, and 22 percent in a non-religious spiritual energy or universal force. Among those who believe in a god, there are significantly more representatives of the 60+ generation, women, and individuals with higher formal education, it was stated.
(APA/Red)
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