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Is there a ufo reverse engineering program?
Multiple whistleblowers and classified program proposals confirm that reverse-engineering of recovered craft has been a documented government aspiration, if not a confirmed operational reality. David Grusch's sworn 2023 congressional testimony named a 'multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program' run through aerospace contractors under special access program (SAP) compartmentalization. KONA BLUE — a DHS-level SAP proposal, now partially declassified — explicitly proposed to reverse-engineer any recovered off-world spacecraft, confirming the ambition existed at the institutional level. The gap between 'no empirical evidence' and 'no program' is precisely where the most significant testimony lives.
Evidence
- The documentary foundation runs deeper than AARO's denials acknowledge.
- KONA BLUE, now confirmed through declassified AARO documents, was a proposed DHS Special Access Program explicitly designed to reverse-engineer recovered off-world craft.
- David Grusch, a former NRO and NGA intelligence officer, testified under oath before Congress in July 2023 that the U.S. has recovered 'non-human biologics' and intact craft, and that the program operates through private aerospace contractors specifically to evade Title 50 oversight.
- Bob Lazar's 1989 testimony about Element 115 (moscovium, now confirmed on the periodic table) and gravitational propulsion systems at S-4, Nevada remains the oldest specific technical claim.
- An ASIRP Journal analysis (June 2026) concludes that Cold War-era pursuit of UAP reverse-engineering by both U.S. and Soviet programs is 'established on the documentary record — tasked, funded, documented, and partially declassified.'