Zeropoint1971 said:
Like most people who listen to the paracast, I have a profound interest in ufology, with a deeper interest being in the theories that we have recovered and back-engineered alien craft.
But if we do indeed have these type of crafts, I find it strange that in all the ufo related material that I have read over the years I don't think I have ever read any kind of story which details how we have used these craft!
I tend toward believing that humans do have such technology and craft, and they have had it for a long time. If so, then I've got the hokey answer for this question: We don't see stories about the thing they most want you to ignore. In other words, we see stories about everything BUT what is actually going on. Lack of this single story isn't proof, of course, just a piece of a circumstantial puzzle.
If the craft are indeed operational, I assume that they have been tested outside our own atmosphere.
Then why haven't there been any stories on this particular issue ?
As in the previous answer, if you think in terms of something that has been around for a while (not back-engineered, just engineered), and the development of which stimulated visitation by extra-terrestrials, then a convenient method of burying any story about human craft is to make any sightings look like just part of a hysterical wave of public panic, which then became 'idiots seeing lights', and now has become information which is totally non-news.
If part of the real ruling class of the world is involved, then perhaps this quote will help:
"The class inhibitions that haunt the contemporary press under its multimillionaire ownership are responsible in large measure for the neurotic character of American newspapers. Because so many fields of editorial investigation and exposition are taboo, the press as a whole must confine itself to a relatively restricted "safe" area.
This accounts for the undue measure of attention given to the underworld; to petty scandals involving actresses, baseball players, and minor politicians; to sporting affairs and the activities of the quasiwealthy. The press, in short, must compensate for enforced lack of vitality in dynamic fields by artificial enthusiasm in static fields. In place of an evenhanded, vital, varied daily news report, the American press as a whole is obliged to present a lopsided news report that is of doubtful reader interest. And in order to recapture the constantly waning attention of readers it must rely upon comic strips, inane "features", contests, gossip columns, fiction, cooking recipes, instruction columns in golf, chess, bridge, and stamp collecting, and similar nonsense. American newspapers, in short, are, paradoxically and with few exceptions, not newspapers at all."
-Ferdinand Lundberg, "America's 60 Families", c. 1938