Overwhelming belief in aliens is 'dangerous' to society, new paper warns

Don’t tell Mulder and Scully.

An academic in England says Earthlings are having too close of an encounter with UFO conspiracies and that it “is no longer a quirk, but a widespread societal problem.”

“This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist,” Tony Milligan, a research fellow in the philosophy of ethics at King’s College in London recently wrote for The Conversation.

“What’s more, given the vast distances between star systems, it seems odd we’d only learn about them from a visit. Evidence for aliens is more likely to come from signals from faraway planets,” the naysayer said.

Milligan, now published in the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, cited recent “dangerous” statistics that nearly a quarter of Americans believe they have seen a UFO.