The UFO Phenomenon

Just how difficult would it be to reverse-engineer alien technology?

By T.K. Randall
March 20, 2025 ·  15 comments

Would we have any chance of reverse-engineering a UFO ? Image Credit: Northrop Grumman In recent years we've heard multiple claims from government whistleblowers and insiders regarding alleged cover-ups of captured UFOs and reverse-engineered alien technology.

Assuming that the world's best minds really did have access to a UFO, however, how likely is it that they would be able to replicate its technology ?

An interesting recent article in Popular Mechanics looks into this very question by asking mechanical engineering experts what it would actually take to figure out how a UFO works.

"What you would try to do in such an advanced case is figure out what the function is that the original creators were trying to come up with here," Dr. Philip Voglewede of Marquette University in Wisconsin told the magazine.

"What is it supposed to do? Work backwards from that."

"I've been in tear-downs in which we encountered a part we'd never seen before and couldn't figure out what it was. Instead, we had to ask what we thought it was trying to do and to then analyze the physics of how it worked."Engineering expert Dr Robert J. Stango echoed this approach by suggesting that if he was dealing with a completely unknown or exotic object like a UFO, the key would be to go back to basics.

"No matter how advanced or complicated a given process or object is, physics regulates everything," he said.

"Engineering is the applied variety of physics, so one would have to come to grips with the fundamental physics of a given operation. Without that, you're going nowhere."

Without the opportunity to speak to someone who might have worked on reverse-engineering a genuine piece of alien technology, however, it's difficult to know what doing this for real would be like.

Would it be the equivalent of a Neanderthal trying to figure out how a computer works or would we have at least some sort of fundamental understanding of how the device functioned ?

Unless such a scenario actually comes to pass, however, we may never truly know for sure.

Source: Popular Mechanics | Comments (15)

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