One of the most compelling - and plausible - aspects of the UFO/UAP phenomenon is the notion of "reverse engineering" alien technology. The concept being that we've recovered the wreckage of crashed UFOs and tasked scientists and engineers with finding out what makes it work, and how to apply it to our own uses. Usually through very specialized departments, all separate and distinct from one another. And to keep it all highly classified, so that none of them is aware of what the other is doing.
Bob Lazar, of Joe Rogan podcast fame, has been telling the same story for decades. That he was assigned to work at a top secret facility in the desert, and his specialty was propulsion systems. Specifically involving the bending of gravity itself. Among his claims was the discovery of a material we didn't know existed, Element 115. And years after he began talking about it, it was added to the Periodic Table with the name Moscovium.
Another authority who was very forthcoming about reverse engineering was Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso in his book The Day After Roswell. The book goes into great detail about how he was assigned to distribute the components to various government agencies and even give some away to private defense contractors - without telling them where items came from - to see if they can develop them for commercial applications. From which we got things like silicon chips and night vision.
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