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US base leads poll's top conspiracy theories

Area 51 is the most popular conspiracy theory to have surfaced over recent years, according to a survey to mark the release of the film The X-Files: I Want To Believe. Of 1,000 British adults, 48% are said to believe that aliens and spaceships are being investigated at the US military base, also known as Groom Lake, in Nevada. The online poll, by film company 20th Century Fox, found the second and third top conspiracy theories were the beliefs that the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11 2001 were orchestrated by the US government, and that the Apollo moon landing was a hoax.

· 1 Area 51 exists to investigate aliens (48%)

· 2 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government (38%)

· 3 Apollo landing was a hoax (35%)

· 4 Diana and Dodi were murdered (32%)

· 5 The Illuminati secret society and masons are trying to take over the world (25%)

· 6 Scientologists rule Hollywood (17% )

· 7 Barcodes are really intended to control people (7%)

· 8 Microsoft sends messages via Wingdings (6%)

· 9 US let Pearl Harbour happen (5%)

· 10 The world is run by dinosaur-like reptiles (3%)