Time Traveler From Year 5000 Warns of Impending Asteroid Disaster

June 5, Washington DC - Scientists were left stunned today by the warnings of an apparent time traveler from the year 5000 concerning a catastrophic asteroid disaster. The man, identifying himself only as "Tensor X9347 from the 38th century", approached authorities at the National Air and Space museum insisting he had traveled back in time to warn people of Earth's peril.

"In my time, history records that in the year 2021, an asteroid 1km in diameter collided with Earth, devastating the entire planet and bringing about the collapse of human civilization," the time traveler told reporters. He claimed that time travel technology 5000 years in the future enables selected historians to warn past generations of existential threats to prevent such calamities from unfolding.

However, astronomical observatories around the globe report that no such large asteroid is on a collision course with Earth at the present time or for the foreseeable next century. While acknowledging the alarming warning, scientists can find no evidence we are in immediate danger from an impact event. Some have questioned whether this individual may have come from the future not to warn us but simply to sensationalize and profit from the news cycle.

"We have no reason to doubt this man's sincerity, but without any detectable threat, we cannot take this warning as justification to mobilize global defenses or spend billions of dollars on intercept technology at this time," said the head of the White House science council. While dismissed as implausible by experts, the ominous claims of a future disaster continue to spark fears of impending doom in segments of the public.

Fate will determine whetherTensor X9347 comes from a future now fortunately diverted, or is the subject of an elaborate science-based hoax. All that remains is to await word on this foretold asteroid and hope humanity's destruction does not come to pass by a mere decade in either direction.

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