Book

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

2019

Synopsis

Michael P. Masters' Identified Flying Objects presents a compelling, multidisciplinary argument for the "extratempestrial" model of unidentified flying objects. Rather than looking to distant galaxies for the origin of these craft, Masters, a professor of biological anthropology, suggests that UFOs may actually be our own descendants traveling back through time from the deep future. By examining the long-term trends of human evolution—specifically the continued encephalization of our brains and the shrinking of our faces and teeth—he argues that the "Grey" aliens commonly described in close encounter accounts look exactly like what humans might naturally evolve into after hundreds of thousands of years of further development.

The book leverages the physics of general relativity and our current understanding of spacetime to suggest that backward time travel may be more scientifically grounded than the vast interstellar distances required for the traditional extraterrestrial hypothesis. Masters posits that these future humans are likely visiting their past to conduct anthropological, historical, and biological research, treating us much like modern scientists treat archaeological sites. By grounding the phenomenon in the established sciences of evolutionary biology and physics, the work shifts the conversation away from fringe speculation and toward a structured, academic exploration of how humanity’s future might be interacting with its present.

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

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