The claim that material recovered from non-human craft was deliberately introduced into ordinary industrial research, by writing it up as conventional foreign hardware, placing it inside existing defence contracts through trusted scientists, and letting the contractor patent whatever came out under its own name. On this account the contractors were never told the origin, no memoranda were kept, and the published history of each invention is therefore the history of a cover.
Philip J. Corso stated it in its complete form in 1997 and it has been the default grammar of the subject since, running through Ross Coulthart’s reporting, David Grusch’s testimony and the Crash Retrieval Program and Legacy Program claims. Its distinctive property is symmetry: the mechanism is specified so as to erase its own trail, so the archive looks identical whether the claim is true or false. That is visible on the page rather than something critics imposed on it, and it is why the dated histories of the transistor, the laser, fibre optics and Kevlar can neither confirm nor refute it.
Connections
Philip J. Corso · The Day After Roswell · Crash Retrieval Program · Legacy Program · Foreign Technology Division · David Grusch · Ross Coulthart · In Plain Sight · Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion