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Initech

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Sat Apr 13, 2013, 03:30 PM Apr 2013

One In Four Russians Expects UFO Encounter In 50 Years

MOSCOW, April 12 (UPI) -- Nearly one in four Russians expect extraterrestrials will contact Earth within 50 years, an opinion poll published Friday said.

Although a majority of those surveyed, 53 percent, said they do not believe in aliens, 23 percent expect an alien civilization to contact humans, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported.

The poll was undertaken to mark Cosmonauts Day, which commemorates the 1961 flight into space of Yuri Gagarin. Its findings were reported shortly after an influential Russian Orthodox Church official commented that people often mistook angels and demons for aliens, RIA-Novosti said.


Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/04/12/One-in-four-Russians-expect-close-encounter-with-aliens-poll-says/UPI-46571365796573/#ixzz2QNDHzbk6


Have they not seen Men In Black? There's plenty of aliens living in New York City.
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