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- [Narrator] If we are alone in the universe,

then how do we explain the wealth of verified

and recorded accounts of unidentified flying objects?

The Pentagon has revealed their research

into UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomenon.

They have proven without question that UAPs do,

in fact, exist,

but are these UAPs alien in origin?

According to modern physics, time travel is indeed possible.

Perhaps then these UAPs aren't coming

from somewhere else, but from some when else.

Could these UAPs be us from the future?

If this is the case,

that the aliens we see are indeed us from another time,

the questions are these, why are they here and why now?

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These are the "Alien Disclosure Files."

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Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk County, England.

December 26th, 1980,

the day after Christmas

- The Rendlesham Forest incident of 1980 remains one

of the most intriguing and controversial events

in UFO lore.

Occurring near the RAF Woodbridge Base in Suffolk, England,

this incident involved the alleged sighting

of an unidentified aerial phenomenon

by multiple U.S. and British servicemen.

- [Narrator] Multiple enlisted personnel,

including high-ranking officers,

witnessed colored lights emanating from the forest.

- Several military personnel said

that they saw flashing lights in the sky

and later identified a triangular craft that landed

on the ground and came in contact with some of them.

This is one of the most famous UFO incidents ever,

but it's still a hotly-debated topic.

- [Narrator] Several men who inspected the area later

claim to have felt the air's electrical charge increase

the closer to the mysterious lights they got.

Others sensed time slowing down,

and one claims to have not only seen a craft,

but even to have touched it.

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- According to the investigation,

they claimed to have encountered a metallic craft

on the forest floor described

as emitting in otherworldly glow.

Some witnesses even reported

observing hieroglyphic-like symbols on the craft's surface.

- You know, when it comes to the theory

that some of the beings that people are witnessing,

like in the Rendlesham Forest incident,

that these are people

from the future coming back to talk to us.

I mean, that was Jim, the witness's,

theory after 30 plus years coming back

to realize he'd created a matrix of lines and whatnot

that said something that sounded

like it was from the future.

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- [Narrator] Sergeant James Penniston described it

as a large black ship,

triangular in shape, measuring six to seven feet high.

On its sides were pictorial inscriptions

that, when he touched them, transferred a binary code

of zeros and ones directly into his mind.

- Sergeant James Penniston got close enough

to the craft to actually touch it.

And he says that he was downloaded

with some information in the form of code.

He later was able to write down

what looked like binary code

and many people have tried to interpret it.

- [Narrator] Years later, a computer programmer ran the code

through a translation program.

The results were chilling.

"Exploration of humanity,"

the translated message read.

"Continuous for planetary advance.

Eyes of your eyes.

Origin year 8100."

Could the incident at Rendlesham Forest have been more

than another eyewitness account

of a recorded UAP encounter?

Could Rendlesham Forest be proof of contact with beings

not just from somewhere else,

but from some when else?

Could those beings be us from our future?

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While the concept of time travel is relatively new

in the world of hard science,

it has long been discussed in literature

with the most famous example coming by way of H.G. Wells.

In 1895, Wells published his seminal novel,

"The Time Machine,"

in which a Victorian-era scientist builds a device

that enables him to move backward and forward through time.

Fast forward just 20 years to 1915.

Albert Einstein writes his groundbreaking paper

on general relativity.

Suddenly, the prospect

of non-fictional time travel became a reality.

With time travel a theoretical possibility,

so many aspects of UAPs can be seen in a different light.

- Sightings and accounts of contact

with humanoid beings have been reported

throughout human history

and across different cultures worldwide.

These encounters often vary in nature

and interpretation, influenced by cultural, religious,

and societal beliefs.

- It could be possible that human beings and races

from other planets and other civilizations

have progressed down similar evolutionary paths

and that the results bear humanoid beings

that have slight differences.

It's more likely, however, in my opinion,

that the humanoid form is something

that has been developed over time

and that humanoid aliens really represent distant relatives,

rather than completely different examples

of alternative evolution

- [Narrator] In H.G. Wells' story,

the scientist travels forward in time.

In his travels,

he meets new intelligent species that aren't human

but are what humans have evolved into.

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- The incident involving Barney and Betty Hill,

known as the Hill abduction,

is one of the most famous cases in UFO history.

- [Narrator] Throughout UAP history,

there have been no extraterrestrial beings more

commonly encountered than those referred to as the Grays.

While they first entered into the modern zeitgeist

via the Barney and Betty Hill abduction case of 1961,

they've possibly been around for thousands of years

- So Betty and Barney Hill is one

of the first cases ever to involve supposed alien abduction.

Now, this was a couple back

in the 60s that had a lot to lose.

They were an interracial couple who was successful

in their businesses and well thought of in the community.

They risked everything to come forward

with a story of encountering an extraterrestrial spacecraft

on a lonely road where they were then taken aboard the craft

and subjected to medical experiments and more.

They stuck by their story at great cost to them,

and it still stands out as one

of the most important alien abduction cases

in Ufology's history.

- On the night of September 19th, 1961,

the Hills were driving home from a vacation in Canada

when they reported experiencing a period of missing time.

They claim to obscene humanoid figures looking

at them through the craft's windows,

prompting them to run for their lives.

However, their next conscious memory was

of arriving home later

than expected with inexplicable physical sensations

and fear flowing through their bodies.

Under hypnosis, the Hills provided detailed descriptions

of the beings they encountered.

They described them as short in stature

with gray skin, large eyes, and slits for mouths.

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- [Narrator] They've been seen

in indigenous Australian cave paintings,

the statues of Easter Island,

Incan temples of South America,

the angels of the Judeo-Christian Bible,

and the Roswell incident in New Mexico.

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- Humanoid forms depicted in historical accounts

or popular culture are often influenced

by cultural and social beliefs,

as well as artistic imagination.

These depictions may not necessarily reflect the most likely

or even the most feasible evolutionary paths

for the human species.

- [Narrator] With their large heads and eyes,

gray skin and lithe anatomy,

the Grays appear to not be human,

but they do have two arms and two legs,

hands and feet, two eyes.

What are the chances

that an alien race would evolve to be so similar

to us in form?

- The Grays have become iconic and a recognizable figure

in the field of Ufology.

- The gray aliens are the beings most commonly described

by people reporting abductions

and encounters with non-human beings.

They're typically thin, small, big heads, big almond eyes,

very small noses, very small mouths.

Now, these beings are often responsible

for conducting experiments and making personal contact

with the people involved in these encounters.

- They can't do anything.

They have long, thin fingers.

I hear of them sometimes levitating

to move instead of walking.

These things are rather cold.

A lot of people don't find them to be very friendly

and very robotic.

In fact, the theory is

that potentially these are some form of AI,

that these are some kind of robot.

That the entity can like slip into this carcass

and move around, whatever the entity is.

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- [Narrator] Looking at life on earth alone,

we can see how different species can be.

Some creatures fly, some breathe underwater.

Some can see in the dark.

Some have hundreds of legs, while some have none.

The variations seem almost limitless.

However, one can see clear lines

of evolution across a species.

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- So humans have evolved a certain way to adapt

to planet Earth, but it's also quite possible

that the human being as it is now

could evolve in a completely different direction to adapt

to other environments and situations.

So it's not a stretch to think

that some of these humanoid aliens that we see,

or some of these other humanoid beings that we see,

are still coming from the same genetic pool,

and that they have adapted

and evolved to fit their own specific environments,

such as long travel on spaceships

or different gravities or different densities of air.

The possibilities are endless

and the evolutionary potential is just as big.

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- [Narrator] If humans are

to achieve interstellar space travel,

it's likely that we'll need

to colonize local planets and moons first.

Plans for that are already in motion.

At the 2016 International Astronautical Congress,

SpaceX formally announced plans for missions to Mars

with hope of colonization by 2050.

- If humans were to inhabit space

or other planets for generations,

they would likely face unique environmental challenges,

such as altered gravity, different atmospheric compositions,

and varying resource availability.

- Some of these beings that we're seeing

and hearing about might not be that different

than what would happen to humans

if they evolved over time in different conditions.

For instance, being on a distant planet

with less light and less gravity might make us evolve

into beings that are smaller, thinner, with bigger eyes,

and a whole different way

of covering the retina and covering the pupil.

So evolutionary processes of human beings

could also resemble what we're seeing in non-human beings.

- [Narrator] Extraterrestrial travel could,

perhaps indeed would, necessitate enough evolutionary change

that humans become the Grays.

But this theory all hinges on one important idea.

At some point, humanity learns how to time travel.

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In terms of our lived experience in the universe,

there is no question of whether or not time travel exists.

Everything in the universe travels forward through time.

But in Wells's book, the character goes forward

in time faster than everything else around him.

This means they travel into their future.

According to Einstein, this is also something we can do.

- Our current scientific understanding of time

and its manipulation is limited to concepts

like time dilation, which occur under specific conditions

such as extreme velocities or gravitational fields.

- [Narrator] Let's say a person built a machine

that could let them travel at close to the speed of light.

If they traveled for one year, they would return

over 2,000 years into their future.

But it's not just speed that can change time.

A strong enough gravity will have a similar effect.

If a person could somehow withstand the gravity

at the edge of a black hole without being pulled apart

into atom-wide strings of spaghetti,

they could also travel forward in time.

It may not be easy, but it is theoretically possible.

The real problems

with time travel occur when moving backwards,

even if the science says, once again. that it's possible.

- The grandfather paradox is a thought experiment

often used to illustrate the logical contradictions

that arise when considering the possibility

of time travel to the past.

Imagine a person travels back

in time and encounters their own grandfather

before the conception of their parent.

If the time traveler were to, say, kill their grandfather

or prevent their grandparents from meeting,

it would create a contradiction.

Then the time traveler would never exist.

As a result, there would be no time traveler to go back

in time to kill the grandfather,

leading to a logical paradox.

- Now, a lot of people look at this

and say that that makes backward time travel impossible,

but there's other things that we're not thinking about.

What if multiple timelines exist,

and even though you were able to kill your grandfather

and erase your existence in one timeline,

the existence of you in the timeline

that was able to go back in time is still there

in an alternative reality.

These things get deeper and deeper and deeper.

- [Narrator] The infamous grandfather paradox

is so persuasive that several eminent scientists,

including Stephen Hawking,

believe that it makes backward time travel impossible.

The math, however, says otherwise.

According to current models,

if two points in space can be linked with two doorways

via a singularity or a strong enough field of gravity,

they would create a tunnel through space and time.

If you then flew one doorway across space

at close to the speed of light for a year,

you could travel 2,000 years into the future or the past.

There is one sizable obstacle though: it takes energy.

A lot of energy.

Obtaining and then controlling the amount

of energy it would take

to make time travel a reality seems impossible.

Or does it?

In under 200 years, humans have gone

from using steam to power machines

to harnessing nuclear energy for powering cities.

Why then is such a technological advancement

so difficult to imagine when UAP sightings have

already proven a mastery of time travel?

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One of the most common descriptions

of UAPs is their physics-defying maneuverability.

(pilots shouting)

Unfortunately, these rapid changes in direction

and acceleration would tear a ship

and any crew inside apart.

- These UAP are displaying characteristics

that defy the known laws of physics.

Objects that can travel at intense speeds,

come to a complete dead stop, change direction,

and then accelerate again to unheard of speeds.

- With some of the extreme movements that UFOs can have,

I think we'd make a little splatter spot inside

of that craft if we were inside there.

Personally, I don't think that there's a way

that we could survive being onboard something

like that if there wasn't something else going on.

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- [Narrator] But if the creators of such vessels

had control over localized time travel

so that the movements inside weren't as extreme

for the inhabitants of the UAP,

then that wouldn't be the case.

- Some people studying what the UAP are capable of

point to the possibility

that they're somehow manipulating time and space and matter

to create these effects

that they're shown to be capable of.

But the technology to do that,

although it's theoretical and theoretically possible,

is not something we're going to have,

if at all, for a very long time.

- [Narrator] If UAP flight patterns prove a mastery

of the spacetime continuum,

then these same UAPs could very well be here

from the future.

Combined with that, the fact

that the pilots of these vessels frequently appear

as humanoids and the evidence suggests

that the aliens we've been witnessing

for millennia might be us.

But if that is the case, it leads to one troubling question.

Why are we here?

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- Archeologists study past human civilizations

and cultures to gain insights into our history,

while scientists delve into the fundamental workings

of the world and the universe.

It is conceivable that future visitors,

if they possess advanced technology and knowledge,

might be interested in studying our time, culture,

or even remnants of our civilization.

- [Narrator] If we are the aliens,

we are yet to make our presence purposefully known.

This suggests one plausible theory.

Perhaps we are archeologists

and historians meticulously studying the past,

while simultaneously trying not to alter it.

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But why would we need to study ourselves

when we have developed so many forms

of record keeping and information storage?

Surely humans from our future

would have all the information they need.

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- What if there was some kind

of global catastrophe that disrupted civilization?

What if things changed in such a way that the history

of our existence was lost

to future humans that might've survived such an event?

If they had mastered time travel,

wouldn't it make sense to come back

and try to reconstruct the past

and maybe even construct a better future?

- [Narrator] Humanity has succumbed to multiple events

so devastating that entire cultures

have effectively been erased.

Entire species have been wiped out by natural events

such as ice ages, volcanoes, and asteroids.

If such an event happens after humans have

begun interstellar exploration and colonization,

then the most accurate way for archeologists

of the future to study our culture

would be to come back here themselves.

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