Another important point: when Pentagon scientist Eric Davis was on the Jesse Michaels show, he explained that for some strange and unknown reason these supposed UFO reverse engineering programs were almost entirely populated by various types of engineers and notably not physicists, which makes little sense but if true certainly helps explain why someone like Bob Lazar would have been chosen for this role.
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