Part 1: Retrieval, Funding, Selection, and Corporate Custody For decades, skeptics have asked a reasonable question: If the United States recovered non-human technology, how could a secret that consequential survive for 80 years without presidents, senior military leaders, or Congress discovering it? One possible answer is that “the government” is not a single, unified entity. A sufficiently compartmented program could distribute its operations across intelligence agencies, special-mission un...