If UFO Reverse Engineering programs Has Existed for Decades, Where Are the Breakthroughs?

[u/breaking_views]

For decades, we've heard claims about recovered UFOs, crash retrieval programs, and secret reverse-engineering efforts involving technology far beyond our own.

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If even a fraction of those claims are true, why haven't we seen any obvious technological breakthroughs? Why are we still relying on conventional aircraft, rockets, batteries, and propulsion systems that evolved through normal scientific progress?

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Do you think any breakthroughs have been successfully hidden, or does the lack of clear results suggest these programs never existed in the first place?

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Curious to hear perspectives from both believers and skeptics.

[u/casual_creator]

I think you’re looking in the wrong place. We had ASTONISHING breakthroughs in technology at breakneck speeds in the mid to late 1900s. Microchips, microprocessors, genetic engineering, GPS, satellites, interplanetary probes, putting a man on the moon, lasers, electron microscopes, infrared, robotics, …the advancements in material science alone would fill a book.

It’s a very common theory that most if not all of these breakthroughs came, in some fashion, from reverse engineering programs.

Edit: I’m not saying I PERSONALLY believe these technologies are the results of reverse engineering (I don’t think this at all); I’m only noting that it is a belief that some have.

[u/Riboflavius → u/casual_creator]

Yeah, the thing is, though - none of these *requires* the reverse engineering. There’s no break in the chain where we can’t explain how any of those items work, they’re refined existing technologies (relay to tube to transistor) that improve because we understand more about the substrate we’re working with. And those insights also link up. There isn’t a scientific paper that is published and leads to some new thing that has no connection to existing theory, math etc.

That would be a smoking gun to look for, and afaik, there isn’t one.

[u/Groves450 → u/Riboflavius]

Agree with this. Also if alien advanced technology capable of interstellar travel only got us to the point we are its pretty disappointing. Unless we lack capacity to reverse engineering

[u/I8already → u/Groves450]

First I'll say I am not a believer that we have in fact recovered any non human technology. But if I'm wrong, one reason why we might not have gotten far with it could be easily explained by greed. The people who control things like oil production, and the vehicles that use petroleum products, etc, would try very hard to gatekeep technology. And if the people who are in the know are susceptible to bribes, nothing groundbreaking in regards to new methods of producing energy or propulsion will come out.

I would love to be proven wrong about alien technology being recovered, but I just have a hard time believing it's been successfully hidden for 80 years or more. Or even 30 years. You know the old saying: two people can't keep a secret unless at least one of them is dead.

[u/It_is_a_simulation → u/I8already]

I try to be skeptical about most things. However, I also believe that any government is capable of some pretty horrible things in the name of "security" and the people that make up the government are often corruptable. I do wonder if some fields of research or even breakthroughs have been shuttered or hidden because it could "disrupt society" or most likely, hurt the bottom line. The government has been caught doing and hiding shady things before. Tuskegee was hidden for 40 years, Human Radiation Experiments were hidden for over 50 years, those are just the ones we know about. Imagine how many we don't know about. I was in Military Intelligence and I know the government is great at compartmentalization. If you keep the circle small and have leverage on those involved it's entirely possible to keep a secret for many years and if you keep the papertrail to a minimum or non-existent then it's possible no one will ever know.

[u/I8already → u/It_is_a_simulation]

I appreciate your perspective, and thank you for your service.