Page Content (OCR)
109 the true geniuses. Not only would he have been unable to understand how it worked, but he would not have had the slightest clue about how he might try to figure it out. Its postage-stamp-size chip would have meant nothing, nor would its liquid crystal display. He would have had no choice but to set it aside in hopes that someone would learn something in the future to enable the strange little gadget to be figured out. The same could be true of the UFOs that crashed in New Mexico in 1947: They may have been so far ahead of our science and technology that efforts to understand even small parts of them would have proved utterly futile. They would then have been placed in storage and checked periodically to see if the latest knowledge might have shed some light on their exotic make-up. We may still be waiting for our knowledge of science to catch up. Or we may have figured out some of what makes a 1947 model UFO tick and have put this knowledge to use. Or we may actually have learned how an alien craft is built, is oper- ated, and is flown. THE MILITARY TAKES OVER