The US government seems to be quite ready to try out a lot of fringe stuff if it provides military applications (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Proje

The US government seems to be quite ready to try out a lot of fringe stuff if it provides military applications (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project). They may as well just have gotten their inspiration from the general flying saucer hype.