The best thing about reverse-engineering alien spacecraft, perhaps a thousand years or more ahead of our time, is that it has given us the edge over other nations that still rely on the more lackluster 100% Human ingenuity. Just watch an F22 stall and pivot in the air, gawk at the Stealth fighter's sleek, black, clearly extraterrestrial-inspired bat shape, and marvel at the notion of the existence of an unmanned Aurora spy drone that flies really, really high up and really damn fast. And all awhile, snapping pictures in stereo. Yes, if it weren't for recovered Alien spacecraft hardware, we'd probably never get past the 1970's idea of higher, farther, faster. With any luck, our G-Men will get a hold of a crashed
UFO that is maybe 10,000 years ahead of our time and we can work on it for years, spend untold billions in R and D, and develop a fighter/bomber/recon vehicle that will allow us to zip into Moscow from low Earth orbit at Mach 8 or faster and show those commies who's boss.
We can
dream. The question is, kids, can computers, also? Hey, let's reverse engineer one of those alien computers onboard, too. We'll call it Hal Jr.