Air Force vet’s theory on UFOs might surprise you | Opinion

After decades of being relegated to the stories of neurotic rantings from a fringe group of society, reports of UFOs (unidentified flying objects) and UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) are finally being taken seriously by the government and general public, at large.

Congressional hearings are occurring on a regular basis, task forces have been assembled to study the data, and witnesses are now encouraged to come forward to report their experiences. The Pentagon even just launched a digital form to gather information on government UAP programs or activities. That’s all fantastic. But are we any closer to deducing what exactly these strange objects actually are?

One of the reasons UFO sightings became almost the exclusive domain of tabloid fodder for so long is the stigma that if someone had witnessed such phenomena and reported it then that person must have been talking about flying saucers with little green men saying, “Take me to your leader.”

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From there, he or she would be ostracized from the community, laughed at, and generally, called a quack. For the better, that has certainly changed, and a more serious discussion can be had about what’s truly happening in the skies. Over the decades, as legitimate research struggled to find its way to the mainstream, it took a handful of intellectuals, such as Jacques Vallée, to suggest that the stereotypical UFO encounter might not actually be strange enough to explain what was really going on with these sightings.

One such hypothesis for these reported objects — and why they seem to disappear so quickly — is that these craft may not be extraterrestrial at all, that they are actually time travelers from the future. These UFOs and UAPs may be us, disappearing in and out of this moment in time to another in the Earth’s future.

This suggestion may sound like some sort of plot device out of a science fiction novel or film, but the concept is not a fantasy. Time is a human construct, a device and measuring tool to help describe our existence within our current reality. It helps us to keep track of the season, determine when to plant crops, the correct moment to show up at work or the kids need to be at the bus stop, and so forth. It’s a rather helpful mechanism we’ve devised. All of this is carried out within the fourth dimension, of which, according to our theoretical physics, there could potentially be as many as eleven. Each dimension has access to the ones below it — from our fourth dimension, we are freely able to interact with the three below it: objects, planes, and lines. However, the fifth dimension and above are elusive to us. If we were to suddenly find ourselves within that realm the world would look completely foreign to us, much like a fish hoisted out of its watery universe and discovering there is far more beyond.

Those who have mastered time travel will have mastered the ability to ascend to these other higher spatial dimensions and be able to access time as if it were an object or a series of objects, each moment, perhaps, like a photograph in a complete stack of photographs encompassing every moment of the existence of our universe. Will humanity have figured out how to do that in the future here on Earth in order to travel through time to, not only to appear as our UFOs and UAPs now, but also as our unidentified aerial objects in the past and future? It’s certainly possible, but why do these travelers have to be human?

We are within a unique period of the history of our planet at nearly halfway through its existence. It is estimated that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, and it’s believed it will be here for about another 5 billion, at which point the sun will have become a large enough red giant to encompass the planet and destroy it. To put into context how old Earth really is, the last of the dinosaurs died out about 64 million years ago. That’s just over one percent of the entire lifetime of the planet ago. Yet the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens dates back only to about 315,000 years. We haven’t been here as a species all that long in the grand scheme of the planet. Will we even be here another 315,000 years from now, let alone 64 million years with the crash course on which our society seems to be? Perhaps.

 Or, perhaps not. It’s quite possible that in another 64–100 million years from now humans will no longer exist on planet Earth for any number of reasons, whether we annihilate ourselves, succumb to some killer virus, are obliterated by some catastrophic event, and so forth. At that point, there could be another intelligent lifeform that evolves on Earth, creates a mighty civilization, and eventually develops time travel technology. In other words, yes, some of the UFOs and UAPs that we are witnessing may very well be time travelers from Earth, but that doesn’t mean they have to be human. For that matter, they don’t even have to be indigenous to the planet at all. Given a similar scenario of the extinction of humankind, millions of years from now some spacefaring extraterrestrial race could discover our planet, deem it inhabitable, colonize it, and eventually develop time travel technology. Thus, we could be witnessing time travelers originating from Earth but still are still extraterrestrial in nature. 

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The common denominator here is the ability to use a technology that ascends a lifeform to a higher dimensional plane in order to move more freely about the originating dimension – in this case, time. This discussion doesn’t even take into consideration there are likely a variety of beings and entities living within these other dimensions that could also access our plane of existence if they so chose to do so.

This doesn’t mean all UFOs and UAPs are time travelers — I do believe many are a physical craft which have traversed the cosmos, perhaps through a wormhole or Einstein-Rosen bridge to cover the vast distance. However, we do have to take into consideration that some of these strange crafts may have more local origins.

 Researcher Mike Ricksecker is the author of several books including his latest, Travels Through Time, A Walk In The Shadows. For more visit www.mikericksecker.com.