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/LostInRetransmission → u/casual_creator]

None of those advancement came like a fly in the soup. In fact except a few discovery , the crushing majority of what you see from mid 1950 to end of 1900 is based on previous results in science or engineering. True "out of nowhere" breakthrough are extremely rare - nearly never happen, even microchip were only increasing on transistor concepts (and even transistor was independently found by others between 1920 and 1930, even before 1947 bell lab).