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Palmer Luckey -Anduril , which is a military contractor, says that UFOs come from the past.

By: UninformedInvestors
Length: 4 min
Language: English
Text from: the video's captions
Transcribed: 13 October 2026

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Summary

Palmer Luckey discusses UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) and shares his personal working theory that they originate from the past rather than the future or from recent manufacturing. He reasons that the vast span of time before the present makes a past origin more probable, and that forward time travel via gravity distortion is physically plausible while travel from the future is not. He frames all of this as speculation, not knowledge, and suggests that UAPs and current human technological development are on parallel tracks until the mystery is solved.

Key points

Luckey's current working theory is that UAPs come from the past, not the future.
He argues that coming from the future doesn't work physically, while forward time travel via strong gravity distortion is believable.
He thinks it is unlikely any of these UAPs were manufactured or created within the last few years.
He suggests Earth may have hosted advanced civilizations a billion years ago whose remnants could account for UAPs, though he is not betting on any single explanation.
Some UAPs appear invisible in certain spectrums and lack radar signatures, which he thinks may be the nature of the thing itself rather than active cloaking.
He references an out-of-print book, 'The UFOs and USOs of the Santa Catalina Channel,' about objects entering and leaving the ocean in similar ways over decades.
He believes UAPs and current human technological development are on completely parallel tracks, and everything will change if we ever figure out what UAPs are.
He repeatedly emphasizes he is guessing based on what he knows, not claiming to know what is going on.

Questions it answers

00:00Cloaking or nature of the phenomenon

Why do some UAPs appear invisible or lack radar signatures?

Luckey says he doesn't know whether invisibility in certain spectrums or the absence of radar signatures is active cloaking or simply the nature of the thing itself. He suggests these objects may not interact with reality or exist in the way we expect physical matter to.

Invisibility and missing radar signatures may be artifacts rather than countermeasures.
There is a lot we don't understand about these vehicles and where or when they come from.

01:02The past-origin theory

Where does Palmer Luckey think UAPs come from?

His current working theory is that they come from the past. He argues that coming from the future doesn't work physically, while forward time travel through strong gravity distortion is believable, so something from the distant past could arrive at our present.

Coming from the future is 'too hard' — the physics don't seem to work out.
A gravity distortion could let subjective time pass slowly inside a bubble while time races by outside.
Probabilistically, the long span of time before now makes a past origin more likely than a present one.

01:56Ancient civilizations and long storage

Could UAPs be remnants of ancient Earth civilizations?

Luckey says you could imagine a world where Earth hosted advanced civilizations a billion years ago and these are the remnants of that, though he is not betting on it. He also allows that they may have been waiting around or regularly surveying for a long time.

Advanced ancient Earth civilizations are floated as one possibility, not a commitment.
They may have been around a very long time, either traveling long or subjectively short distances in time.

02:35Not recently manufactured

Does Luckey think UAPs were built recently?

No. He thinks it is very unlikely any of these UAPs were manufactured or created within the last few years. He suspects they have been around for a long time, stored for a long time, created long ago, or traveled from the distant past.

Recent manufacture is described as 'very unlikely.'
His real bet is that these things are old, possibly extremely old.

03:15Undersea bases and the Santa Catalina Channel

What does Luckey say about undersea UAP activity?

He references the theory of undersea alien bases and an out-of-print book, 'The UFOs and USOs of the Santa Catalina Channel,' which documents objects going into and out of the ocean in extremely similar ways over decades. He notes that being stored on Earth doesn't necessarily mean they came from here.

Decades of similar ocean entry and exit sightings are cited as believable.
Storage on Earth neither confirms nor rules out an Earth origin.

03:55Technological superiority and parallel tracks

How does this affect views on our technological superiority?

Luckey says UAPs and our technological development live on completely parallel tracks right now. If and when we figure out what is going on with UAPs and UFOs, everything will change and current comparisons won't be relevant.

UAPs and human tech development are currently unrelated tracks.
Solving the UAP question would change everything.

Notes

Palmer Luckey's Working Theory on UAPs

Luckey's current guess is that UAPs come from the past rather than the future or from recent manufacture.
He states that coming from the future "is too hard" and "the physics just don't seem to work out."
Traveling forward through time is plausible: a strong gravity distortion could allow subjective time inside a bubble to pass very slowly relative to outside time.

Why the Past Is More Likely

Spatially, UAPs could come from Earth, nearby, or far away, but temporally there have been hundreds of millions or billions of years before our existence versus only the present moment.
Probabilistically, he finds it more likely these things have been around a very long time, either spending a long time reaching us or subjectively very little time at all.
He floats the idea that Earth could have hosted advanced civilizations a billion years ago and UAPs are remnants of that, but he is not betting on any specific scenario.

On Cloaking and Signatures

Some UAPs are invisible in certain spectrums and show no radar signature.
He is unsure whether this is active cloaking or a countermeasure, or simply that these things "do not exist even in the way that we think about physical matter."
The effect may be a side effect or artifact of what is going on rather than deliberate concealment.

Undersea Bases and Storage

He mentions the theory of undersea alien bases and cites an out-of-print book, "The UFOs and USOs of the Santa Catalina Channel," about objects entering and exiting the ocean in extremely similar ways over decades.
Being stored on Earth does not necessarily mean they came from here, nor does it rule it out.
His real bet: these things are not recently manufactured; they have been around for a long time, stored for a long time, created long ago, or traveled from the distant past.

Technological Implications

He believes UAPs and human technological development currently live on "completely parallel development tracks."
If and when we figure out what is going on with UAPs, UFOs, and that whole universe, "everything's going to change" and current comparisons of technological superiority won't be relevant.
He repeatedly stresses this is his current guess based on what he knows, not a claim of knowledge.

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