March 13, 2026

Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon

Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon

My special guest is Dr. Michael P. Masters who's here to discuss how it's possible that extraterrestrials could very well be humans that have come back in time for a purpose. Get his book Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon on Amazon.

Could “UFOs” and “Aliens” simply be us, but from the future?

This provocative new book cautiously examines the premise that extraterrestrials may instead be our distant human descendants, using the anthropological tool of time travel to visit and study us in their own hominin evolutionary past. Dr. Michael P. Masters, a professor of biological anthropology specializing in human evolutionary anatomy, archaeology, and biomedicine, explores how the persistence of long-term biological and cultural trends in human evolution may ultimately result in us becoming the ones piloting these disc-shaped craft, which are likely the very devices that allow our future progeny to venture backward across the landscape of time.

Moreover, these extratempestrials are ubiquitously described as bipedal, large-brained, hairless, human-like beings, who communicate with us in our own languages, and who possess technology advanced beyond, but clearly built upon, our own. These accounts, coupled with a thorough understanding of the past and modern human condition, point to the continuation of established biological and cultural trends here on Earth, long into the distant human future.

Despite the failure of the ETH to make headway with the expert committees, a few scientists and engineers, most notably J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who had been involved with projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book, concluded that a small fraction of the most-reliable UFO reports gave definite indications for the presence of extraterrestrial visitors. Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), which continues to investigate the phenomenon. Another major U.S. study of UFO sightings was the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a secret project that ran from 2007 to 2012. When the existence of the AATIP was made public in December 2017, the most newsworthy aspect of it was a report that the U.S. government possessed alloys and compounds purportedly attained from UFOs that were of unidentifiable nature, but many scientists remained skeptical about this claim.

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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad-free when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. But yeah, if we did have that technology given to us,

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whether it's intentional or unintentional, I would tend to think it was an unintentional crash. Otherwise, they would just sit down and say, here's this ship. It works great.

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Try not to get any dings or dents in it if you could as you're traveling through time and space. But it seems like it was more of an accidental thing.

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And if we did, if we were gifted this technology, why wouldn't we try to break it apart and understand it?

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And in my mind, the first thing that would happen is to figure out the propulsion system, this sort of anti-gravity, likely electromagnetic propulsion system.

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But then beyond that, if we did recognize that it has the ability to warp space and time.

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