A public-opinion survey commissioned by the Disclosure Foundation reports strong interest in greater UAP transparency. The finding deserves attention alongside its methodology: this is a June 2026 survey being examined here, not a newly fielded September poll.
What the survey asked
Research firm F'inn surveyed 303 U.S. adults online from June 5–9. The Foundation describes demographic quotas covering age, gender, income and geography. It reports that 84% wanted the government to share more information, while 69% believed UAP definitely or probably exist. Those are different questions: wanting records released does not specify what a respondent expects the records to show.
The Foundation also cautions that comparisons with questions adapted from Pew Research Center's 2021 work are directional. Changes in wording, sampling and response options complicate a direct trend claim.
Why the comparison needs care
Pew's June 2021 survey included 10,417 adults from its American Trends Panel, recruited through national address sampling and weighted to population benchmarks. Its reported 65% figure concerned intelligent life on other planets. That is not interchangeable with belief in the existence of UAP: an unidentified observation can have a terrestrial explanation, while extraterrestrial life need not have visited Earth.
Editorial assessment: Placing those percentages side by side would not establish a rise in belief. A stronger comparison would repeat an identical question, preserve response options and document differences in recruitment and weighting. Small subgroup differences also deserve caution when the total sample is only a few hundred people.
The useful takeaway
Transparency support can be assessed on its own terms. Agencies can answer requests with searchable records, clear explanations of withheld material and better descriptions of how cases were investigated. None of those steps requires treating an opinion survey as physical evidence.
The survey is useful as a measure of the participating public's preferences. Its evidentiary role ends before determining the origin of any sighting. Readers should keep the questionnaire and methods beside the headline percentage when judging claims about a national shift.
Source record
- Public Sentiment on UAP Transparency, 2026 — Disclosure Foundation
- Pew's 2021 survey on extraterrestrial life and UFOs — Pew Research Center
- Pew 2021 questionnaire — Pew Research Center
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