The Time Traveller Hypothesis

Dr. Michael Masters is a Professor of Biological Anthropology at Montana Technological University who has proposed what he calls the "extra-tempestrial" hypothesis: that UAP occupants are not extraterrestrial visitors from another star system, but human beings from the distant future who have developed time travel technology and are returning to study their own evolutionary past.

Masters argues that the humanoid form consistently described by witnesses — bipedal, large-headed, large-eyed — is more consistent with an evolved future human than with a being that evolved independently on another planet. He presents the hypothesis in his book Identified Flying Objects (2019) with a degree of scientific rigour unusual in speculative UAP literature.

A Novel Framework

Whether or not Masters' hypothesis is correct, it represents a genuinely novel framework that sidesteps some of the astronomical improbabilities of the extraterrestrial hypothesis while accounting for the available evidence. His anthropological background gives his analysis a distinctive methodological basis that other researchers have found intellectually stimulating.