- The concept of time travel
has been theorized for hundreds of years.
It speaks to a fundamental desire of humanity,
the want to go back and know, or even change something.
But while theories have been presented
as to how this may be possible,
there are some conspiracy theories that exist right now
that suggest that it has already happened.
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Here are 10 time travel conspiracy theories.
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Number 10 is the Roswell time travel incident.
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Much has been written about the Roswell crash of 1947
where an alleged alien spacecraft crash landed
in Roswell, New Mexico.
The U.S. government then quickly removed the bodies
and aircraft, but not before a number of locals,
and low level officials saw what happened.
But one interpretation of Roswell
is that it wasn't an alien craft,
but instead a failed time travel attempt
from the future.
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso claimed
to be involved in researching the bodies
as well as the debris found that day.
He stated on record that the bodies
were probably genetically engineered
to withstand both space travel and moving throughout time.
The Roswell incident can then
be reinterpreted not as an alien visitation,
but as a probe from the far flung distant human future.
One which perhaps wanted to pass on a warning
about what was ahead for our species.
Number nine is the Iranian time viewer.
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In 2013 an Iranian businessman called Ali Razeghi
claimed to have built a time machine which was capable
of predicting the next five to eight years
of a person's life.
Razeghi claimed that his working prototype
was the first of its kind,
and that it could change humanity's destiny,
allowing it to negotiate future dangers before they occur.
However, the Aryayek time machine, as it came to be called,
has so far never been released.
Razeghi claims that it's because
of intellectual property issues with China.
Without stringent laws to stop companies
from mass manufacturing other people's ideas,
China would be able to mass produce the device
if it saw a prototype.
Razeghi claims that while China
and the United States continue their attempts
to develop their own time travel machines,
that his will remain safely hidden until it is truly needed.
Number eight is the chronovisor.
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Another device which allowed users to see into the future
was known as the chronovisor.
Designed by Italian priest and scientist,
Pellegrino Ernetti who died in 1994,
the chronovisor was an extension of the work carried out
by another priest in the 1960s called Francois Brune.
Descriptions of the chronovisor describe it
as a cathode ray tube,
which was found inside televisions of the time,
and a viewing screen.
Levers and buttons allowed the user
to select any time or place in history
and view what happened.
The chronovisor supposedly worked
by decoding the electromagnetic radiation left behind
by previous events.
Conspiracy theorists believe that the machine
was taken by the Illuminati
and is now used for an unknown sinister purpose.
Number seven are messages from a time traveler.
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John Titor was an online bulletin board user
in the early 2000s who claimed
to be a time traveler sent from the year 2036.
He claimed to be hopping between parallel worlds
and times, and made predictions
about an upcoming nuclear war.
In his post, Titor described what the world
would be like after the conflict.
Describing how the United States would break up
into five smaller nations,
and that the world would be devastated by the war.
As Titor described himself growing up in the aftermath
and joining a shotgun infantry unit
in Florida for four years.
20 years later, he would travel back in time
to avert the catastrophe.
Titor's communications abruptly ended,
and some believe this is because he succeeded in his mission
to stop a cataclysmic war from happening.
However, others believe that he was silenced.
Number six is Baron Trump.
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One fascinating time travel conspiracy that exists right now
is that a book published in the 19th century
contains information about Donald Trump's son Barron.
The book is called
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey,
and was attributed to a 19th century lawyer
named Ingersoll Lockwood.
But many believe that it could only
have been written by a time traveler from the future.
The lead character in the book is called Baron,
just like President Trump's son,
though with a different spelling.
In the book, Baron Trump is inspired by a man named Don
who is referred to as the master of all masters
who goes through a portal which leads to Russia
and other places.
Lockwood also wrote a pamphlet called The Last President,
and many believe these are coded messages
from a time traveler to those living in the current year.
Number five is Rudolph Fentz.
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An urban legend tells the tale
of a time traveler named Rudolph Fentz,
but many believe that the legend is true
and has since been covered up.
As the story goes, it's 1951 and Rudolph,
a man in his 20s, appears confused
and walks out into New York traffic and is run down.
Tragically he dies, but witnesses are perplexed
by his appearance.
He's dressed in 19th century clothing.
Several items are found in his possession
including old bank notes and a letter dated 1876.
An investigating police officer uses Rudolph's possessions
to identify him as a man who disappeared
in 1876 in that area.
Somehow he had traveled through time.
In 1951, a short story with the same plot was published.
Conspiracy theorists believe that this was an attempt
by authorities to discredit definitive proof
that time travel is real.
Number four is a time slip.
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One time travel conspiracy theory
describes how an entire passenger jet vanished.
The case relates to a flight during March of 1975.
As the 727 aircraft approached Miami International Airport,
it completely disappeared from all airport's radar.
All attempts to contact the plane failed.
Assuming the flight was lost,
ground control crews were sent out
to look for crash debris or to look to the sky
to see if the plane was still approaching.
10 minutes later, the plane suddenly reappeared
on the airport's radar and could be seen in the sky.
However, when the plane landed,
the passenger's watches were 10 minutes behind.
Some believe that the plane went
through what's known as a time slip,
and traveled 10 minutes into the future.
Though federal teams investigated,
the incident was kept quiet,
other than a short report in a local newspaper.
Number three is Gray's Sports Almanac.
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There's a time travel conspiracy theory
which is eerily close to a plot point
in Back to the Future II.
In the film, Marty McFly travels
to the distant future of 2015,
and buys Gray's Sports Almanac
so that he can go back to 1985
and place bets knowing the outcome.
In 2017, however, a number of strange bets were placed
on World Series games, which won a mystery gambler
14 million dollars.
The run of placed bets was so unlikely,
that's it's almost as if the gambler
already knew the outcome.
This bizarre turn of events has led many
to theorize that the gambler either came
from the future to make a quick buck,
or somehow gleaned information from future events
before placing the bets.
Number two is the Rendlesham Forest incident.
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The Rendlesham Forest incident is a famous UFO encounter
from 1980, but some believe that time travel
may have also been involved.
The events took place when Royal Air Force personnel
investigated strange lights in Rendlesham Forest
near an Air Force base in England.
They encountered a strange unidentified craft
which had landed in the remote location.
It was covered in unusual hieroglyphs and symbols.
It then took off in the middle of the night.
Some form of time dilation then occurred
and servicemen's watches were out of sync.
Following this, one of the men,
a Sergeant Jim Penniston,
said that he received mental images of ones and zeroes.
These were later decoded by experts
as a binary message leading them to conclude
that the craft was actually a time travel probe
from the year 8100.
It's believed that it was sent here
to explore humanity's past.
And number one is Ettore Majorana.
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A scientist named Ettore Majorana mysteriously vanished
and there's proof that he may have traveled into the future.
Majorana was working on neutrino particles at the time.
Some of his theories stated that some particles
could travel through time,
and many since have suggested that neutrinos
could have been used in this manner.
On March 27th, 1938, Majorana was on a ship sailing
from the Italian city of Palermo to Naples.
When the ship docked, he had disappeared.
Some thought that he had been killed, or even kidnapped,
by people interested in his work,
but a photo taken in 1955 proves
that he was alive in Argentina.
He looked the same age, and a witness claimed
to have met Majorana,
who told him that he'd made a huge scientific breakthrough.
Many believe this breakthrough was the ability
to travel through time itself.
So, 10 time travel conspiracy theories.
But the question is, does time travel actually exist?
And if so, are these actual examples
of things that have already happened?
At the end of the day, only you can decide.