Copy to Clipboard (Getty Images) Reverse engineering is a rather common practice used by several industries as well as governmental organizations in order to stay at par with or surpass global competitors. In fact, several research and development wings of tech-based companies invest heavily in backtracking software or hardware prototypes in order to keep up with global trends. But while such an approach may be feasible in our worldly day-to-day, is it possible to apply the same to solve otherworldly mysteries? There is a lot of speculation whether the US military has derived various forms of technology from downed UFOs, and whether we are competing with extra-terrestrial beings by using their crafts as a substrate for advances in modern technology. Several researchers have investigated the possibility that the wreckage obtained from Roswell and other alleged UFO crash sites may have provided us with technology to create fiber optics, night vision, et cetera.