UFOs are just future humans
What's all the fuss? Here's a story to explain.
Okay, so the U.S. Congress held hearings this week on UFOs (forget what it stands for? Not to worry, the subject has been blissfully ignored for decades — they’re Unidentified Flying Objects. But that’s already obsolete — now they're called UAP, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). The hearings were meant to investigate reports that U.S. military pilots have encountered UFOs, and that the government may have been aware of nonhuman flight activity since the 1930s.
What they didn’t report was attempts by a paranoid U.S. President in 2018 to shoot down a UFO. They also didn’t discuss that UFO’s pilot, whose fate will remain unknown until her flight log is intercepted, condensed, and transcribed into a story that rivals that of Amelia Earhart.
The sad part is that this pilot was not a “nonhuman,” contrary to the speculation of one of the air force intelligence officers. She was very much a human who happened to live 10,000 years in the future, after we will have learned how to make time pods that can travel backwards in time. (Please excuse my confusion on the use of tenses here!)
In fact, those time pods will become so common that Alita, the pilot, chooses to use hers in order to travel back in time to gather live data from Earth for her anthropology thesis. In addition to her academic curiosity, she’s also (just a little bit) trying to escape feeling guilty about having shouted after her boyfriend when they traveled to the Himalayas, which will be a no-man’s zone between what we might call Euro-Africa and East Asia. This got him captured, presumably to have his DNA adjusted, never to return.
Just this morning, I heard about a device similar to what will be used in Alita’s world to monitor people’s thoughts, votes, friend preferences, and job skills. An MIT student apparently recently created a gadget allowing him to think at Google and order a pizza.
On her journey round Earth, Alita collects biological specimens, including humans, whom she essentially time-freezes so as to transport them to her nearby time pod while the Earth moves on in its orbit. But for one specimen, she administers too low a dose of sedative, accidentally allowing him to wake up. The two meet and discuss the dramatic history of events that separate their two cultures. They even get to like each other, which is quite dangerous, considering the evolution of viruses and bacteria in the meantime.
The whole story, containing lots more facts about the future that you’ll want to know, is a novella called Alita: An Unidentified Flying Love Story. (By the way, the idea of the U.S. having a paranoid President in 2018 was either a lucky guess or prescient, since I wrote the story in 2012.)
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I may serialize this story on Substack, as I’ve been doing with Franck’s Wild Ride. In any case, you’re welcome to read it on Kindle or in paperback. I also have a few copies which you can order on my site if you’d like one signed. (Or you can forge the signature along with a nice inscription such as “Dear ___, Thanks for teaching me everything I know about writing!”)
how cool to think like that. Time travel --- YEAH the unknown may lie in the past's future. I will get the book for sure when it is done. No tid bits for me right now.