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

by Michael P. Masters

In spite of Stephen Hawking’s strong belief in the incredible ability of the human race and the continued advancement of our species—which was echoed in his “message of hope” for the 1994 BT Group television advertisement—Hawking, somewhat inexplicably, fervently opposed the notion that we will ever develop the knowledge and technology necessary to achieve time travel to the past. With all due respect to one of the most resolute individuals and amazing minds of our time, this inconsistency is somewhat of a paradox unto itself.21 To advocate that humans will never come to possess a deep enough understanding of time, nor the mechanisms with which to alter our position within it, is to deny millions of years of cerebral, cognitive, and cultural advancement across the collective whole of hominin evolution.