Steven Spielberg on UFO sightings: ‘I don’t believe we’re alone in the universe’

He continued, “I don’t believe we’re alone in the universe. I think it’s mathematically impossible that we are the only intelligent species in the cosmos. I think that’s totally impossible. At the same time, it also seems impossible that someone would visit us from 400 million lightyears from here — except in the movies, of course — unless it figures out some way of jumping the shark, so to speak, and getting here through wormholes.”

Steven Spielberg also presented a unique theory, which argued that UFOs are actually humans from the future. “The most optimistic thing I feel about these things we see in the skies, that the Army and Navy and Air Force are recording on their gun cameras, is that what if they’re not from an advanced civilization 300 million lightyears from here?” he said. “What if it’s us, 500,000 years in the future, that is coming back to document the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century because they’re anthropologists? And they know something we don’t quite know yet that has occurred, and they’re trying to track the last hundred years of our history.”

At this point, Stephen Colbert joked that this theory would mean that humanity would have survived 500,000 years. Spielberg replied, “Yes, we survive. Or at least a certain percentage of us survives that allows future generations to flourish.”