exotic materials

In ufology, a term for any "other-worldly" metals, alloys, substances, and artifacts allegedly retrieved by military and intelligence agencies from crashed UFOs. Once retrieved, the materials get stored in undisclosed warehouses and held for top secret scientific study. The efforts to covertly gather, store, and study such materials is believed to have been going on since the 1947 Roswell Incident. It is further alleged that various civilian-run contractors have been routinely executing "crash retrievals" upon the wreckages of downed UFOs for decades now, and have amassed multiple warehouses of these materials. The term "crash retrieval" will typically be used in the same conversation as the term "exotic materials."The most famous example of an alleged exotic material in UFO lore is probably the "memory metal" which witnesses at Roswell claim littered the debris field of the 1947 crash.The most important allegation about exotic materials is that supposedly most post-WWII technological breakthroughs --including transistors, semiconductors, microchips, motherboards, photovoltaic solar panels, night vision, heat vision, stealth technology, nano-tech, and the whole US space program-- would not have been possible without decades of access by secrecy-bound research scientists to these untold hauls of crash-retrieved items. The issuing of secret patents early on in the research process of these materials is the true incentive for military contractors to engage in the research.