Vinicio Coletti's idea about the origin of UFO

Do they come from the future?

First published on September 21, 1999

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What we already know

It is about 50 years that we hear very often of UFO sightings. There are people swearing they met extra-terrestrial beings, others saying they travelled on their ships, up to those that had sex with them...
In fact all this is very hard to believe and first of all I must say that I am not shure at all of the reality of this phenomenon. Thus all I will say applies if and only if someone really proves the material existence of some weird UFO ships of any kind.
Analyzing the UFO sightings and meetings, as reported on newspapers, airforce reports and researchers documents (excluding those very hard to believe), we can find some common facts:

Ships move very fast and often as if they did not follow nature laws
Although they are often around very populated areas, normally they don't look for a contact with people
UFO sightings have been reported also from very ancient times, before any flying machine ever existed
They use engines of unknown type (no exhaust visible)
Sightings look more frequent near important historical events, like wars
Their aspect, if contacts are true, is similar to what human beings are thought to become, after some million years of evolution (bigger brain and eyes, etc.)
Even when they have contacts, they are of limited importance, as if they would try to avoid heavy interferences with our life

My proposal

Once upon a time a person whose name I don't remember said that we have an easy evidence of the impossibility of time journeys: we don't see tourists coming from the future.
Well, what if UFO are these tourists? This would easily explain their behavior:

Ships would not only travel in space but also in time and this would result in very strange paths
They are interested in observing us (their ancestors), but do not want to interfere with past events, modifying them
Since they can go freely to the past, they have been seen in every time in human history
Their engines are the result of some future technology
For obvious reasons they are particularly interested in important historical events, although they observe also the everyday life
Their aspect is different from our own, the same way we differ from apes, thus they come from a very distant future (although genetic technology may have lead to some sort of artificial quicker evolution)

About time travels, they are definitely possibile towards the future. Relativity clearly states that when a ship approaches the speed of light, the time aboard becomes very slow (if observed from a body at rest). This is verified every day in high energy laboratories: when an elementary particle go at a very high speed, it actually lives longer than expected. Another way to describe this fact is saying that the particle moved to the future (a little bit).
But travels to the past are forbidden by relativity, because they would mean going faster than light. However there are many strange places in the universe, like the proximity of a black hole, where time travels become theoretically possibile (but anyway not practical, as far as we can foresee).
And there are lots of things to discover, for example how exactly the gravity is linked to the other three elementary forces.
The only things I can say is that if we can really see these tourists coming from the future (UFOs), some day in the million years to come, someone will discover a way to travel to the past.
IF...

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