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The truth is out there and Canadians think they should know about it — but they don’t want to pay for research into reports of strange objects spotted in the night sky.

Canada’s chief science adviser hired a third-party consulting firm to poll Canadians on how they feel about UFOs, now broadly referred to as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).

The survey says the public wants the federal government to proactively release any documents it has on unidentified sightings in the night sky, but there’s little desire to fund investigations.

About half of Canadians think the government needs to do something about reports of UAP sightings and a third said it’s “very important” for the government to make information on reported sightings available to the public.

But only one in 10 feel it’s urgent for the government to shell out funds to investigate those reports.

“Despite the general interest in government …

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