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An elderly man has made the extraordinary claim that he's among the world's first time travellers, having journeyed to the year 2118 - and insists he has photographic evidence to back it up.

Alexander Smith maintains he participated in a clandestine CIA operation and is putting his life on the line by speaking out about what lies ahead.

In a YouTube video, he asserts the CIA are "looking for me and I am living in hiding". He alleges he travelled from 1981 to 2118 and returned.

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He said: "I visited the year 2118 as part of a top secret CIA mission. As to my knowledge, it was one of the first times that time travel had been successfully completed. I went to the future and then back to the past. This all happened in the year 1981."

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During the footage, he then presents what he describes as evidence of his temporal journey, producing a photograph he insists validates his account.

He said: "I do have something to show you today. This picture was taken in the year 2118. This picture was the city I walked in.

"I'll never forget when I took that picture. It was right outside the city, before I had walked into it."

The grainy photograph seemingly depicts several towering, verdant structures with peculiar architecture.

It resembles no metropolis currently existing anywhere on Earth.

Mr Smith added: "I chose to wait until now to reveal that picture to you because I didn't know if the world was ready to see it.

"That was a picture from the future which I was able to take back.

"There was only a minor amount of distortion on it that was caused by the time travelling process.

"The Government confiscated the original photo, but before they took it from me, I did manage to make the copy I held before you."

Describing what the world will resemble in the coming century, the elderly man also revealed how humanity will have encountered alien visitors, adopted a new language, and witnessed climate change deteriorate significantly.

The time traveller claimed: "Aliens do visit us, there are intelligent extraterrestrials that do come to earth.

"They visit first in the mid 21st century."