Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Poll: 10 Percent Of Americans Believe Plane Was Abducted By Aliens

In the nine months that have passed since the tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, numerous conspiracy theories have abounded. There have been some weird and wonderful claims and suggestions as to the real fate of the aircraft, as well as the passengers on it.

According to a recent CNN poll, at least 10 percent of Americans believe “beings from another dimension, time travelers, or aliens” may have had something to do with the plane’s disappearance.

At the same time, around 21 percent of the people polled think the plane may have landed instead of crashing, and the people on the flight survived.

Among the other conspiracy theories is the one reported by humansarefree.com claiming the plane was hijacked and flown to a remote location. Another claims that Malaysia Flight MH17, the plane that crashed in a field in Ukraine, is, in fact, Flight MH370, and it was deliberately crashed in a “false flag” operation to discredit Russia.

According to a new book entitled Flight MH370—The Mystery, the aircraft was actually shot down accidentally by joint US-Thai strike fighters in a military exercise in the South China Sea.

The many theories are mainly fuelled by the lack of transparency of the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash. For example, Malaysian government opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has accused his country’s government of holding back “missing bits of information,” which have been withheld from the public, for one reason or another.

He also questioned how a country with “one of the most sophisticated” radar systems in the world could lose track of an airplane. The CEO of Emirates, Tim Clark, also expressed similar sentiments about the withholding of information from the investigation.

Investigators have recently reported that they could finish searching the priority zone by May 2015, but there is no guarantee that they will find Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, and if they don’t, there’s no guarantee they will uncover the mystery of how it disappeared.