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The concepts are linked through academic discourse regarding the probability of extraterrestrial visitation [1] and their shared presence as primary search terms in social media research analyzing public interest in unidentified phenomena [2] and [3].

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Exploring expert figures in alien-related UFO conspiracy theories nature.com Nature 2 facts
measurementThe researchers extracted a sample of the 25 most liked, English-language tweets for each of the four hashtags (#UFO, #UFOsightings, #Aliens, #UAP), resulting in a total of 100 tweets that included the keywords 'expert(s)' and 'scientist(s)'.
procedureThe researchers used a Python script to scrape posts from the X platform (formerly Twitter) using the hashtags #UFO (117,000 tweets), #UFOsightings (21,000 tweets), #Aliens (79,000 tweets), and #UAP (66,000 tweets) between March 2022 and November 2023.
UFOs and the U.S. government: The push towards greater ... - WBUR wbur.org WBUR 1 fact
claimCarl Sagan argued that while it is statistically probable that aliens visit Earth every few hundred thousand years as a 'way station' during interstellar travel, the likelihood of such a visit coinciding with recent reported UFO sightings, such as the incident involving the USS Theodore Roosevelt, is extremely low.