anyone seen a ufo lately?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/10/26/ghost.poll.ap/index.html

These are the sorts of things that give me the 'bump in the night' feeling: The fact that half of our population believes in ESP for example, higher even among educated people. That seem a bit high to anyone else? I can accept that people have certain semi/unconscious perceptual abilities, picking up on moods or small or subliminal clues as to the situation, etc, but calling it something like ESP doesn't make any sense. It's not extra; it's included. The brain performs any number of processes in the background, some of us are better at picking up on what it is telling us subconsciously because of training or experience. At least the number is going down.

The fact that the UFO sighting percentage is so much lower than ghosts is probably the most disturbing element. At least with aliens there's some scientific possibility, even if it's unlikely to be incontrovertible evidence. I don't get the ghost thing at all. Here's the thing, I would say the explanation has to do with hallucinogenic effects induced by dreaming and immediately following dreams, except the percentage of people quantifying the experience as a ghost differs along political and educational grounds. I have no idea how to explain any political gaps. Religion, sure, because religious people accept all sorts of things anyway without any basis in reality, but politics?