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That's pretty interesting.
I have a hard time with that explanation, though, because it doesn't make sense to me that they could be so far out ahead of non-governmental aeronautics.
Well, you'd have to believe that exotic crafts are flying around our planet, and that they were downed and/or have crashed at points in time and been collected by the USG.
Then, you'd maybe believe that during Eisenhower's administration, these were turned over to private companies, who made breakthroughs of their own.
Whether they fully informed the USG of these breakthroughs and the extent thereof, who knows.
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This is the hypothesis that they've been semi-successfully reverse engineering a craft, but still don't understand the principles?
It's one of the better explanations.
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You mean how they can fly like that?
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Yeah.
One of the explanations I've heard for why the technology hasn't leaked is that the people working on it don't understand it well enough to replicate it, but they're working out how to control the ones they have access to.
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I actually think there's a few "tech trees" going on, including things like:
  • humans who've discovered this science on their own; 1890s airships, Stan Deyo
  • Govt entities that have been trying to understand it since they got ahold of crashed/downed/found crafts; Bob Lazar,
  • Private companies that made breakthroughs on their own after being given ET crafts to work on, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed, Raytheon
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Maybe so, but a necessary feature of all of them is lack of sufficient understanding to fully commercialize the tech or publish peer reviewed scientific articles about the newly discovered principles.