Jim Penniston
USAF Staff Sergeant (81st SPS), leader of the first-night patrol at Rendlesham (Dec 26, 1980). His account grew in stages: his 1980-81 written statement puts him ~50 m from the light; since ~1996 he recounts touching a triangular craft with 'glyphs'; in 2010 (30th anniversary) he added a telepathically received 'binary code'; in 1994, under hypnosis, he said they were 'us, from the future.'
The time-traveler hypothesis, also known as chrononaut UFO, future humans, extratempestrial model and Terminator theory is the proposal that unidentified flying objects are humans traveling from the future using advanced technology. Some notable people have given recent public exposure to the hypothesis, such as retired NASA aerospace engineer Larry Lemke, Wisconsin congressman Mike Gallagher, and American filmmaker Steven Spielberg. The time-traveler hypothesis is considered extremely implausible by mainstream scholars and is generally regarded as unorthodox even among UFO theorists who argue that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft or interdimensional phenomena.