Hold the phone… there’s a problem in the matrix.

Footage has emerged showing what appears to be a smart phone being used to film a Mike Tyson fight in 1995 – five years before the first camera phone was sold.

The clip has led to speculation among conspiracy theorists that time travel may actually be possible and that it’s already been used in the future.

Woman wanted to rip her own arm off after toxic caterpillar stingTyson was fighting with Peter McNeeley in Las Vegas when the time traveller (or alien on holiday) was inadvertently filmed in the background.


UFO spotter Scott C Waring explained: ‘What we have here is a time traveler coming back to watch their favorite fighter and sitting in the front row seats.



‘Back in 1995 they did have phones, but they didn’t yet have cameras on them. Why wouldn’t a time traveler want to see Mike Tyson fight?’

Free hugger arrested for giving a punch insteadWhy not indeed.

However, there may actually be a logical explanation.

While camera phones/smart phones weren’t invented back then, digital cameras were – including one that looks suspiciously similar to the one in the Tyson fight.

Killjoys have suggested it might actually have been a digital camera (Picture: Snopes)