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> would immediately halt funding for any secret government or contractor efforts to retrieve and reverse-engineer craft of “non-earth” or “exotic” origin.

If that were going on (and I'm skeptical) why would you want to stop it?

> Funding would also be cut for “the development of propulsion technology, or aerospace craft that uses propulsion technology, systems, or subsystems, that is based on or derived from or inspired by inspection, analysis, or reverse engineering of recovered [UFOs] or materials.”

Again, why the hell would you stop funding for development of propulsion tech that might be of alien origin? You can bet that if China or Russia had a craft like this they'd be trying to reverse engineer it.




Because you are being paid (or blackmailed) by the aliens.

Or because you don’t believe they exist, and think that “classified program to recover extraterrestrial craft and reverse engineer its technology” is used as itself a cover for outright corruption.


Likely because it's been going on since at least the 40s by private defense contractors, who don't have the same oversight as a gov agency and who are benefiting from the tech with tax payer dollars without the public knowing or benefiting.


It would only be prohibited from receiving funding if it wasn’t reported to the relevant Congressional committees.




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