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From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 18:11:37 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 18:11:37 -0400
Subject: NIDS Roper Poll Results




Source: http://www.sightings.com/ufo3/react.htm

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How Would Humans React If ET Landed? - NIDS Roper Poll

6-8-99


PRESS RELEASE
National Institute for Discovery Science
June 7, 1999

HOW WOULD HUMANS REACT IF E.T. LANDED?

NASA and the scientific community are actively searching for
evidence of extraterrestrial life, but what if we were
confronted with undeniable proof that ETs exist and have been
visiting Earth?

A nationwide survey by the Roper Organization has uncovered the
following:

...one out of four Americans think most people would "totally
freak out and panic" if such evidence were confirmed.

...eighty percent of influential Americans think the US
government would classify or suppress evidence of
extraterrestrial life.

The Roper survey was conducted on behalf of the National
Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), a privately funded
scientific research organization based in Las Vegas, NV. The
pollsters asked a nationwide sample of 1,971 men and women a
variety of questions concerning a sudden confirmation of
extraterrestrial life. (The poll has error margins of 2.5
percent.)

Among other findings:

When asked what they thought UFOs were:

25% thought they were alien spaceships 19% said UFOs are normal
events that are misinterpreted by witnesses, and 12% thought
they were secret government programs 9% said hallucinations 7%
said travelers from other dimensions.

When asked whom they would choose to make first contact with ETs
on Earth:

20% said the military 29% said scientists 14% said the
government 11% said religious leaders, and 20% said a private
organization that had planned for such a contingency.

"There have been no systematic studies about the potential
impact of confirmed contact", says Dr. Colm Kelleher, deputy
administrator of NIDS. A 1960 report by the Brookings Institute
and an internal RAND document from 1968 predicted profound
social consequences if contact were confirmed, but there have
been no follow-up studies.

For more information about the Roper survey and about NIDS, keep
reading, or visit the NIDS website at:
http://www.accessnv.com/nids

When asked how they would react psychologically to confirmation
of advanced extraterrestrial life:

32% said they were "fully prepared to handle it" 17% said they
would "rethink their place in the universe".

Yet when asked how they think OTHERS would react to the same
news:

25% said that "most people would totally freak out and panic"
10% said most others would "act irrationally and become
dangerous to others 14% said that others would "begin to act
very strangely" 36% said "most people would be very concerned",
and only 13% said "most people would handle the information in a
calm and rational way".

Since 1995, NIDS has been conducting scientific research into
unconventional and novel areas including aerial phenomena
research. NIDS's president and founder is Robert Bigelow. The
Las Vegas based organization employs a staff of Ph.D. level,
multi-disciplinary scientists and is advised by a world class
science advisory board.

Kelleher pointed to ongoing serious scientific studies on the
remote possibility of an asteroid striking the planet. "On the
other hand we have no government programs, no contingency plans
that are in the public domain for coping with the possibility of
E.T. contact. Yet these numbers from Roper say that 80% of the
trend-setters in America do not trust the government to inform
the public and one in four of the general public think there
would be total panic if confirmation of advanced
extraterrestrials occurred", said Kelleher.

The full text of the poll can be accessed on the NIDS website
at: http://www.accessnv.com/nids. Or contact Dr. Colm Kelleher
at NIDS at 702-798-1700 or nids@anv.net.

Jean Henry of the Roper Organization can be reached at:
914-698-0800