Aliens 'more believable than God'

New research has found that the number of British people who believe in UFOs, aliens and the supernatural outnumbers those who follow religion, reports The Daily Telegraph.

In a survey to mark the DVD release of The X Files: I Want To Believe, 54% of 3,000 people polled said they believe in God, while 58% revealed that they believe in the supernatural.

37% reportedly claimed that the basis for their belief system is aliens and ghosts.

Some cited recently-released government files which revealed that that there was a 1991 sighting that the military was unable to explain.

It said: "In the absence of any clear evidence which could be used to identify the object, it is our intention to treat this sighting like that of any other Unidentified Flying Object."