Quotes About Back-engineering

After reading The Day After Roswell, however, I concluded that there were huge issues involved that should be in the public domain. How much had we learned from back-engineering the alien craft that had crashed? Was there a possibility of future star wars? Were the American taxpayers aware of what was going on, and the cost involved?

He confirmed that there had been crashes at Roswell (there were actually two, almost simultaneously), that the U.S. had long been working on back-engineering the technology, and that there had been face-to-face exchanges between the Star Visitors and U.S. officials.