Humans travelling back in time in UFOs Humans could be using UFOs to travel back in time and stop World War Three from happening, according to conspiracists (https://bit.ly/3Kp0haV). The hypothetical spacecraft may be used to alter the passage of our historical timeline, it is claimed. Time travel and extraterrestrial enthusiasts have been sharing many wild and imaginative new theories since the beginning of the current war in Ukraine. But one idea that has really caught people's imagination has managed to combine both camps — that UFOs are in fact vessels used by heroic humans from the future who want to pay us a visit. The exciting possibility has even been entertained by some academics, who reckon that UFOs and UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) could actually be humans. Michael Masters, professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University in the United States, told Space.com: "We know we’re here. We know humans exist. We know that we’ve had a long evolutionary history on this planet. "And we know our technology is going to be more advanced in the future" "I think the simplest explanation, innately, is that it is us [flying UFOs]." He suggested that the craft could be "anthropologists, historians, linguists" coming to our own time to "get information" in a manner not possible with today's technology. Wonders of the ancient and modern world may even be visited by 'time tourists' wanting to see sights that have long since vanished from the face of the Earth, Professor Masters added. But some have gone further than him with their conclusions, claiming that the supposed time travellers are actually heroes attempting to save us from ourselves. Commentators Ross Coulthart and Richard Dolan are among those to have discussed the possibility of them being on a mission to prevent World War Three amid the current geopolitical situation. The idea of UFOs as time travel devices was branded "highly dubious" by sceptic Robert Sheaffer last year. He said: "So, according to Masters, you just spin something fast enough and it will begin to warp space, and even send stuff backwards in time. This is a highly dubious claim."