# Yes: such a programme exists, and McCasland, at least, was close to it

> Still possible: A US programme to retrieve and reverse-engineer non-human craft exists, and at least one person on the list, McCasland, worked on it or…

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# Yes: such a programme exists, and McCasland, at least, was close to it

A US programme to retrieve and reverse-engineer non-human craft exists, and at least one person on the list, McCasland, worked on it or was close to it.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Released records name the programme and show McCasland's or another listed person's part in it.
- The Inspector General's withheld records on Grusch's complaint, when released, support his account.

## What would rule it out

- The Inspector General's and the UAP records-law releases contain no first-hand documentary evidence of such a programme.

## Evidence 2 for · 1 against

[DeLonge wrote in 2016 that McCasland had run the laboratory where the Roswell wreckage was taken](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/missing-scientists/evidence/EVD0DCQS6F8AVTG/delonge-wrote-in-2016-that-mccasland-had-run-the-laboratory)

Speculative

FOR

[Grusch testified under oath that he was told of a multi-decade retrieval and reverse-engineering programme](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/missing-scientists/evidence/EVD0DCQS64SXKYN/grusch-testified-under-oath-that-he-was-told-of-a-multi)

Speculative

FOR

[The official historical review found no verifiable evidence of the programme](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/missing-scientists/evidence/EVD0DCQS6T34KYW/the-official-historical-review-found-no-verifiable-evidence)

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AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Is there evidence of a US programme to reverse-engineer non-human technology that any of them could have worked on?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/missing-scientists/questions/QST0DCQNQJTMW48/is-there-evidence-of-a-us-programme-to-reverse-engineer-non)

Part of [Are the deaths and disappearances on the list connected?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/missing-scientists/questions/QST0DCQNKRMCAR2/are-the-deaths-and-disappearances-on-the-list-connected)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Yes: such a programme exists, and McCasland, at least, was close to it [Answer ANS0DCQPPJRTBTW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DCQPPJRTBTW
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