It's the carrot and the stick: - Stick. Today a program that is doing "Advanced Propulsion Research" that happened to be reverse engineering UFO tech would be

It's the carrot and the stick: - Stick. Today a program that is doing "Advanced Propulsion Research" that happened to be reverse engineering UFO tech would be perfectly legal. Cutting funding for this, unless explicitly authorized, opens up liability for anyone in the government and related contractors. - Carrot. The amnesty is an opportunity to come forward without the liability.