▲When asked this question in a national poll, 9% of Americans responded "yes," while 22% responded, "not sure."

▲According to Public Policy Polling, there are roughly 12 million Americans who believe that our public officials are really shape-shifting alien creatures.

▲When asked what country the US gained independence from, 76% responded Great Britain, 2% said France, 3% mentioned countries such as Russia, China, and Mexico, and 19% are unsure.

▲In a Gallup poll, one-fifth of Americans responded they believe the sun revolves around the Earth.

▲Roughly 10% of Americans think chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to the Washington Post.

▲According to the New York Times, there is a community of roughly 10,000 individuals that believe they are constantly being watched by multiple people.

▲A survey done by the Sun Sentinel newspaper showed that 20% of people in America believe that scratch tickets are a legitimate path to wealth.

▲According to ABC News, 36% of Americans believe that UFOs exist and four-fifths of respondents said they believe that the US government conceals information about UFOs from the public.

▲A national survey revealed that roughly 18% of people in the US believe planet Earth lies in the center of the universe.

▲In a hilarious survey conducted by the Huffington Post, 11% of participants thought that HTML was a sexually transmitted infection.

▲In a Gallop poll, 42% of Americans admittedly believe that "people on this Earth are sometimes possessed by the devil."

▲According to The Guardian, one-in-four Americans think that former President Barack Obama might be the Antichrist, with 13% responding "yes" and another 13% responding "not sure."

▲According to a national poll, 28% of Americans think Saddam Hussein was involved in the attack on September 11, 2001, and 22% were unsure.

▲According to CNET, 41% of survey respondents believe that humans were not only alive when dinosaurs were still alive, but that they peacefully lived together.

▲In a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling, 37% responded that they believed global warming is not real and another 12% said they weren't sure.

▲According to Forbes, nearly one-third of millennials are "flat-earthers."

▲According to a Gallup poll, 32% of Americans believe ghosts are real.

▲According to Public Policy Polling, 20% of Americans believe there is a link between modern vaccines and childhood autism, and 22% were unsure.

▲In a poll, 15% said they believe television commercials use mind control and another 15% were not sure.

▲According to Business Insider, 37% of Americans believe pharmaceutical companies are preventing the public from creating alternative treatments and cures for cancer, while 31% were unsure.

▲12% of Americans agreed to the statement, "The global dissemination of genetically modified foods by Monsanto is part of a secret program, called Agenda 21, launched by the Rockefeller and Ford foundations to shrink the world populations." 46% were undecided.

▲In a survey, 12% agree and 41% were undecided if fluoride is added to our water supply "for chemical companies to dump the dangerous byproducts of phosphate mines into the environment."

▲In response to the statement, "The CIA deliberately infected large numbers of African-Americans with HIV under the guise of a hepatitis inoculation program," 12% agreed and 37% were unsure.

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Apparently 20% of Americans agreed and 40% were unsure about the statement, "Health officials know that cell phones cause cancer but are doing nothing to stop it because large corporations won't let them."

▲According to a study done by the Pew Research Center, one-fifth of Americans believe technology will allow us to change the weather within a few decades.

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According to a survey, roughly 47% of Americans believe that aliens have walked among us.

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It gets weirder. Conspiracists are claiming that a high-rise apartment building in Kyiv was not actually hit by a missile because photos of its repair and partial reconstruction have gone viral. There's also a video in which it looks like a corpse in a body bag is moving, used as "proof" that actors are being hired to play dead bodies, however this video was also used to discredit the COVID-19 pandemic. And then there's Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's alleged body double who is actually easily identifiable as Maksym Donets, Zelenskyy's personal bodyguard. It all just goes to show that sometimes it doesn't matter if the facts are all there, people will believe what they want to.

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In response to the question, "Do you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President Kennedy, or was there some larger conspiracy at work?" 51% say there was a larger conspiracy at work and 24% were unsure.

▲In 2023 there has been a spike in US right-wing social media accounts making increasingly popular yet baseless claims that the entire war in Ukraine is a hoax—one perpetrated by Western media and governments, of course. These accounts, many of whom were previously banned on Twitter but allowed to return thanks to Elon Musk, claim there is a "lack of war footage" and "no detailed updates" from the frontlines, though BBC and other broadcasters have much-documented evidence, not to mention the social media videos from within the war zones which were confirmed by journalists.

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A Gallup poll revealed that 21% of Americans believe in witchcraft.

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From lizard people running the government to chocolate milk coming from brown cows, the things that some Americans believe provide endless entertainment to pollsters year after year. Some are popular conspiracy theories, while others are misinformation, pure and simple.

Intrigued? Click on for some of the most fascinating public opinion poll results in America that are real head-scratchers.