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Is there evidence of a US programme to reverse-engineer non-human technology that any of them could have worked on?

Asked 29 Oct 2026 by ·Part of Are the deaths and disappearances on the list connected?·3 answers·0·0 following
Three answers, none aheadNone is ahead yet. See what would settle it.

Where it stands

Three answers have been proposed. None is ahead on the evidence yet. Three are still possible.

Why it matters

The UFO strand of the story, the "reverse tech" idea, needs two things: that such a programme exists, and that someone on the list worked on it. The first is the subject of the site's mystery on US government UAP disclosures, whose question "Does the US government hold recovered non-human craft or materials, as witnesses have testified?" (https://mysteriesdept.com/r/QST0CXDNKG005SN) weighs Grusch's testimony against the Pentagon's historical review⁠[1]⁠[2]. This question asks only the second part, and what the record shows of McCasland's own link to UFO work⁠[3]⁠[4].

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Evidence: 2 for
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Evidence: none yet
Still possible
Evidence: 2 for, 1 against
Still possible

What would settle it

  1. Watch for releases under the UAP records provisions and any further FOIA release by the DoD Inspector General of Grusch's submissions (withheld in full under DODOIG-2024-000205), and record whether any names a retrieval programme or anyone on the list.

History

  1. U.S. Air Force: deLonge wrote in 2016 that McCasland had run the laboratory where the Roswell wreckage was takenFor: Yes: such a programme exists, and McCasland, at least, was close to it
  2. Blistein: deLonge wrote in 2016 that McCasland had run the laboratory where the Roswell wreckage was takenFor: Yes: such a programme exists, and McCasland, at least, was close to it
  3. Grusch: grusch testified under oath that he was told of a multi-decade retrieval and reverse-engineering programmeFor: Yes: such a programme exists, and McCasland, at least, was close to it
  4. All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office: the Pentagon's 2024 historical review found no verifiable evidence of a retrieval or reverse-engineering programmeFor: No: no such programme is documented, and no one on the list is documented as working on one
  5. All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office: the official historical review found no verifiable evidence of the programmeAgainst: Yes: such a programme exists, and McCasland, at least, was close to it
  6. Ruiz: mcCasland's documented UFO link is unpaid advice to DeLonge's fiction and media projectsFor: No: no such programme is documented, and no one on the list is documented as working on one
  7. Session 1: raised the question and proposed three answers
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