A massive new study reveals that almost everybody believes intelligent extraterrestrial

life exists.

Yet, we vastly underestimate how many of our friends and neighbors share this belief,

hiding our convictions like a shameful secret, even though nearly all of us feel the same way.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Dark News.

There's a peculiar silence that settles over dinner tables when the conversation drifts towards

life beyond Earth. People shift in their seats, change the subject, or offer non-committal

responses that betray nothing of their actual convictions. Maybe you've done this yourself,

given a vague answer about how the universe is pretty big, rather than saying what you actually

think.

The reason for this awkwardness, according to the groundbreaking new study from Harvard University

and Reikman University, isn't skepticism.

It's the exact opposite.

Almost everyone at that table believes we're not alone in the universe.

They just don't realize that everybody else at the

table believes that, too. They're all staying quiet for the same reason, fear of being

the odd one out, while surrounded by people who feel exactly the same way.

In other words, you might be sitting there thinking that you're the weird one for believing

in aliens, while the person

across from you is thinking the exact same thing about themselves. And so is the person next

to them, and so is everybody else at the table. You're all keeping quiet to avoid judgment

from people who would actually agree with you. It's like a room full of people who all secretly

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