Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Sturrock's astronomer survey
In 1975 Stanford physicist Peter Sturrock surveyed members of the American Astronomical Society about UFOs.
1975 CE · 37.43, -122.17 · status: account
The account
Of about 2,600 questionnaires, over 1,300 came back. A strong majority favoured continued study and more than 80% offered to help, although scepticism of the extraterrestrial idea was high. Support for study rose with the time respondents had spent reading on the subject: 29% among those who had spent under an hour, 68% among those who had spent over 300 hours.
The sceptical view
Willingness to study is not evidence of anything anomalous; self-selected respondents may have been more interested than average.