When I was little and the news would talk about "illegal aliens" I thought they seriously meant aliens from outer space! I thought Omigod! Not only are they aliens but they are illegal!
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Legal and Illegal meant the same thing (illegal)— Dhruv
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully
- I don't know where I got this from but for a while I thought that aliens were really God. — Heazure
- when I was about 7 I thought that aliens hid under my bed. I wouldn'd sleep in my bed for a whole year!— *Rachel*
- I thought that people who spoke a different languages were aliens.— Phoebe
- i thought aliens would come to earth year 2000 because of a commercial were an alien ate a hot dog— ulle