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Are Aliens Time Traveling Humans?
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1/21/2025
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The whispers of alien life have never, ever been louder.
00:03
There are whistleblowers on Capitol Hill.
00:06
There's a tidal wave of official UAP videos.
00:09
Our technology has never been as advanced as it is today.
00:13
And we're finding more and more exoplanets almost every week.
00:17
We could be on the brink of the single greatest discovery of modern times.
00:21
But if and when we get there,
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will alien life be anything like we expect it to be?
00:27
Or will an extraterrestrial being be something that's completely different?
00:34
One of the biggest questions that believers in UFOs and extraterrestrial visitations have to answer is why?
00:40
Why would aliens go to so much trouble to travel so far across the universe
00:44
to come and abduct just a handful of random Earthlings?
00:47
Is Earth special to them? Have we been targeted?
00:50
Or is every alleged alien encounter in history simply the result of random chance?
00:55
These problems, though, are eliminated if we consider for a second
00:58
that flying saucers aren't far off spacecraft, but that they're time machines insteadā¦
01:03
filled not with otherworldly creatures, but with humans from the future
01:07
who we might reasonably assume would know that the Earth is here.
01:10
This isn't yet a widely accepted theory,
01:13
and there are many other, far more mainstream predictions on what alien life will or could look like.
01:18
But there are growing numbers of scientists and professors lending their thoughts to it, too.
01:23
Most notably one Michael Masters, a professor who published a book in 2020
01:27
on what he calls a multidisciplinary scientific approach to UFOs.
01:31
In it, he discusses the possibility of future humans returning to the here and now,
01:36
and being mistaken for aliens.
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And, regardless of where you stand, it does make for an interesting thought experiment.
01:43
Because, if you were given a working time machine,
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wouldn't you want to go, yes, to the future to see what becomes of humanity,
01:49
but also to the ancient past, to see some of your favourite historical periods up close?
01:54
And, when you arrived in the ancient past,
01:56
wouldn't you imagine that you might be greeted with wonder, suspicion, or fear?
02:00
All of the same emotions you might expect to exhibit upon meeting an alien.
02:04
If we, in the present then, would love a time machine to visit the past,
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the same would probably be true of humans in the future.
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Only, for them, our present is their past.
02:14
Time travel is arguably the most talked-about sci-fi concept of all,
02:18
with all manner of high-profile figures making predictions about whether it will or will never exist.
02:23
But, if backwards time travel specifically is to exist at any time in the future,
02:28
then we're just as likely to encounter it now as at any other time in history.
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All it would take would be a future time traveller keying in to a specific date, and there you go.
02:37
If they were spotted, some would call UFO.
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And, if they were spoken to, some would call alien.
02:42
From the time traveller's point of view,
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Going to the ancient world would be, in some ways, just as foreign or alien as going to a different planet.
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They'd be faced with a completely different society and way of life.
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Long-forgotten customs, languages, foods, and technologiesā¦
02:57
But the basics, the building blocks of life and survival, would be pretty much the same.
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If you were travelling backwards from the present day, for example,
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you wouldn't need to undertake rigorous studies just to test whether the air in ancient Egypt is safe to breathe.
03:10
You'd just need to remember to pack enough water, and maybe some sunscreen.
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In this way, in the hypothetical future when both exist,
03:17
time travel technology could actually be the safer option compared to interstellar space travel.
03:22
But, why would these travellers want to visit the 21st century, specifically?
03:26
In recent years, we have seen a general increase in the number of UFO sightings reported.
03:31
And there are a number of explanations for this, but in the context of today's question,
03:35
would there be anything in particular pulling time travellers to this specific time period?
03:40
Considering that future humans, from a time where backwards time travel exists,
03:44
will also most likely have moved away from Earth, across the solar system and perhaps further,
03:49
it could still be as simple to them as just wanting to know where they came from.
03:53
This interstellar immigration could be a search for cosmological roots
03:56
that leads them all the way back to present day Earth.
03:59
These humans could have been raised on a newly terraformed Mars,
04:03
or in the clouds of Venus above the oceans of Europa and Titan,
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or on centuries-old generation ships just drifting through the void.
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If you were them, wouldn't you want to see the planet where humans originally lived?
04:14
This effectively means that all those UFO sightings we so often hear about on the news or on the internet
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would actually now be tourists. Time tourists.
04:23
It's still not likely we'd take them at their word, though.
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Until we actually develop time travel technology for ourselves, if that's even possible,
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then the majority of people would be at least hesitant to believe anyone claiming to have genuinely come from the future.
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But it's also true that often the aliens that people allege they've seen
04:40
aren't actually that alien in description.
04:42
The stereotypical extraterrestrial in sci-fi and most abduction claims is really quite humanoid.
04:48
They may have grey or green skin, they might be a little shorter,
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and they often have larger heads and eyes,
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but they're still fairly close to us with four limbs and recognisable features.
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And this human-like appearance ties into today's question,
05:01
with the suggestion being that if these strange creatures are actually just highly evolved humans from the future,
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that's why they look a bit like us.
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If we assume that future humans will have gone to live on different planets,
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they could have also begun to evolve at unprecedented speeds and in unprecedented ways,
05:16
simply to adapt to and survive wherever their new home was,
05:20
meaning larger eyes, bigger heads, and longer fingers for any number of reasons.
05:24
Of course, what's more generally accepted as the likeliest explanation
05:28
is that alien abduction claims feature these physical tropes
05:31
because science fiction has steadily perpetuated this particular aesthetic.
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Still, for as long as we don't have any concrete proof that life exists on other planets,
05:40
which we still don't,
05:41
and for as long as we know that humans on Earth are interested in developing working time travel,
05:45
which we still are,
05:47
the idea that the two could marry up can't quite be totally dismissed.
05:51
So, let's imagine for a moment that we live in a future time
05:54
when this far-fetched theory is a real-world reality,
05:57
and it's been uncovered that UFOs really are time machines.
06:00
Should we be worried?
06:02
Well, countless studies and thought experiments
06:04
have shown that travelling back in time could have terrible consequences.
06:08
Anyone doing it could breach a variety of paradoxes
06:11
and prevent important events from happening,
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accidentally cause horrible things to happen,
06:16
or even stop themselves from being born.
06:18
But, perhaps, herein lies another reason to believe that UFOs are time travellers?
06:23
If the dicey history of UFO reports proves one thing,
06:26
it's that these vehicles rarely hang around for long enough to be proved or disproved themselves.
06:31
But, in a world where they're actually piloted by time travellers,
06:34
maybe this is just an exercise in damage limitation?
06:37
The high risk involved with time travel could mean that,
06:40
if we ever did invent it, it would probably be strictly regulated.
06:44
Anyone travelling back in time would be under strict command
06:47
not to alter anything about the past and not to be seen.
06:50
For the most part, then, it works fine.
06:53
But, every so often, a present-day human encounters flashing lights
06:56
or stumbles across a levitating disk and the cover is blown.
07:00
That is, unless the travellers can disappear quickly enough
07:03
or make their appearance incredible enough so that it'll never be believed.
07:06
It offers one explanation as to why so many alien abduction claims
07:10
include instances of missing time or memory problems.
07:13
That part is a traveller's last-ditch attempt to fix their mistake.
07:17
If you accept a deterministic model of the universe,
07:20
one in which everything will always inevitably happen however it's supposed to,
07:24
then, really, none of this should be of any concern to you.
07:27
If UFOs are piloted by extraterrestrials or time travellers,
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or if they're a total myth, it makes no difference.
07:33
And, as for all of the dangers that time-travelling UFO pilots could bring with them,
07:37
well, they're not dangerous at all.
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Because whatever changes they do or don't make,
07:41
always were or weren't meant to be made.
07:44
However, if you're more inclined to free will, you don't not believe in UFOs,
07:48
and you have even a sneaking suspicion that, one day, time travel might be possible,
07:53
then today's question is one meeting place for all of those things.
07:56
We repeat, it's not yet a widely accepted theory,
07:59
but it is an eye-catching thought experiment.
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And that's what would happen if aliens were time-travelling humans.
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What do you think? Is there anything we missed?
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