By Walt Hickey
Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.
This week, I spoke to David Montgomery, who wrote “Is something out there? Americans aren’t sure, but most say the government isn’t open about UFOs” for YouGov. Here's what I wrote about it:
A new survey found that 63 percent of American adults — including 83 percent of people who think there is definitely life on other planets — think that the U.S. government knows more about UFOs than it’s telling the public, compared to just 11 percent who said that the government has told the public everything it knows. That said, while UFOs are often associated with hypothetical alien spacecraft in the popular imagination, the term itself is deliberately ambiguous in no small part due to decades of technological and aeronautical skullduggery between espionage-loving superpowers. All told, 32 percent of respondents said that UFOs are always the result of human or other terrestrial activity, another 32 percent…