We were more interested in eyeballing the top-secret airplane than the snoring moron.
To me any “reverse engineering” would be so difficult. Example: hand a person from 1890 a cell phone, laptop and flat screen HD TV and let them figure out to replicate them.
Marconi’s friends had him taken to a mental hospital because he told them his radio set invention allowed him to talk to far away people and hear them in his own room without leaving.
I am amazed how we could use the downed UFOs to set up B-2 and F-117. Oh, yeah, that’s just a myth. Forgot.