According to a former high-level member of the American intelligence apparatus, the United States government has been secretly recovering debris and even entire intact spacecraft of “non-human origin” for decades. These efforts, shrouded within the Pentagon’s most secretive Special Access Programs, have long sought to achieve a technical advantage over America’s adversaries, who the same former official claims have secret crash retrieval programs of their own.Or at least, that’s the story. Let’s talk about what we know so far.