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The Welcome back to the UFO rabbit hole podcast. I'm your host, Kelly Chase.

Over the last two episodes, we've discussed two potential

explanations for the UFO phenomenon, that the highly advanced technological craft that

are being recorded in our skies and in our oceans could be secret human technology,

or that they could, in fact, be extraterrestrial. But despite the fact that we tend to associate UFOs with

either of those two possibilities, we're just barely scraping the surface and our understanding

of what these craft could actually be. And I've got to warn you, from here on out, things

get pretty strange. In the last episode, we talked about one of the most puzzling aspects of alleged

alien encounters, which is that they look a lot like us. In other words, they're anthropomorphic,

which is a mash-up of two Greek words, Anthrop meaning human, and morphic meaning shaped,

so literally human-shaped. And as we discussed, although the idea that extraterrestrial

beings would be anthropomorphic is counterintuitive, the more we learn about how evolution works,

the more likely it seems that we could encounter intelligent beings from other planets who

do look a lot like we do. But what if there was another explanation? What if they

aren't just human-shaped, but actually human? What if what people are seeing aren't extraterrestrial

beings that happen to evolve along a similar evolutionary path? What if they're part of our

evolutionary path, but they're just further down the road than we are?

This is what is referred to as the future human hypothesis.

The basic premise of this hypothesis is that the origin of UFO phenomenon isn't from another

world, but from this world far in the future.

Michael Masters, a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University, is a proponent of the future. Michael Masters, a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological

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