When I was a kid we lived near some hills that had several televistion broadcasting antennas. I asked my mother what they were, and she said "they are aliens, and they've landed and come to take over the earth." Everytime I saw them I was fascinated and terrified.
A childhood belief about aliens

others believed things like this
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- I used to believe all the stars in the sky were really just aliens with flashlights shining them at Earth.— Lyssy
- i thought aliens would come to earth year 2000 because of a commercial were an alien ate a hot dog— ulle
- I always thought that everytime it got cold or snowed, the plant Neptune came closer to earth.— Andy T
- I used to believe we lived IN the earth rather than ON it.— AC
- I used to believe that we lived inside the earth!— Natalie Howley