A former NASA engineer has made sensational claims that humans are not only reverse-engineering alien technology, but that trillions of invisible extraterrestrial devices may already be hidden across the planet.
Richard Banduric, CEO of Field Propulsion Technologies and a former propulsion engineer for NASA and Lockheed Martin, shared the shocking allegations during a December 2024 episode of the Ecosystemic Futures podcast, which has recently resurfaced on social media platform X.
In the interview, Banduric described a covert effort by the US government and private research groups to study advanced materials allegedly recovered from unidentified flying objects.
He claimed that many of these mysterious objects were not simply crash debris, but part of what he suspects is a vast, invisible sensor network scattered around the world.
The engineer admitted he didn’t know who had placed the devices, but said they were unlike anything ever seen, not just decades ahead of current technology, but hundreds of years beyond it.
He described one such device as a ‘sliver of metal’ that could reconfigure and camouflage itself depending on its surroundings. ‘It would cloak itself and try to blend into the environment,’ he said. ‘That’s how we could tell it was extraterrestrial.’
Despite the bold claims, Banduric offered no physical evidence to support them.
His comments have reignited online speculation about UFO disclosure, with some users calling 2024 the year ‘disclosure really happened.’ The Pentagon, however, continues to deny the existence of any alien retrieval programs or confirmed contact with extraterrestrial life.
Richard Banduric (pictured) revealed what he knew about US efforts to reverse engineer alien technology in December 2024
As for why some advanced group would be scattering tiny objects as part of a global monitoring system, the engineer claimed that extraterrestrials could be trying to influence human society.
‘They have all sorts of functions. This really implies that maybe this group is actually manipulating our species,’ Banduric warned in his first public comments.
Since the 2024 podcast, he and other guests, including UFO researcher Hal Puthoff and former NASA advisor Dr Anna Brady-Estevez, have continued to share details of humanity’s attempt to reverse engineer alien technology.
He added that it was still possible to acquire these cloaked devices scattered around the world, but his access had been cut off by the groups he was working with after he chose to go public with what he knew in 2024.
Banduric had originally been recruited by the US Department of Defense and the Air Force to work on classified projects aimed at analyzing systems from crashed UFOs.
However, he noted that these technologies weren’t being used by the US government. Instead, it was non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that were studying most of the recovered alien technology.
‘Some of that work I was doing with NGOs was really exciting. But one of the other things that comes out of this is that these individuals, or whoever this group is that has this advanced technology, probably does not want us reverse-engineering what they’re working on,’ Banduric explained.
To stop other groups or governments from utilizing these materials, scientists discovered that the unknown metals could break apart into tiny particles that couldn’t be reactivated.
Banduric said that most of the technology from crashed UFOs was being studied and taken apart by non-government groups, not the military (Stock Image)
‘They were smart materials. You’d be looking at them and trying to reverse engineer them, they would turn to dust,’ the engineer revealed.
‘They would do it within a minute or two. Then, you could take the dust, send it off, and get isotropic analysis done on it. It turned out they were extraterrestrial,’ he disclosed.
According to Banduric, NGO scientists continued to run into these problems, suggesting that the technology was carefully constructed so that no one would be able to duplicate what they found.
Along with being able to self-destruct, scientists examining these materials also found they could bend light around them, projecting the image of whatever was behind the extraterrestrial material in front so no one could see what was there, Banduric claimed.
Along with potentially trillions of smaller objects seeded throughout the world, the former government engineer revealed that the US was aware of giant triangle-shaped craft that could use this cloaking technology as well.
The giant triangles Banduric referred to have been described by many people reporting UFO sightings of the years.
The engineer noted that they were ‘not ours,’ implying the triangles scientists were observing were extraterrestrial craft which appeared to vanish after being spotted.
In April, former US national security official Matthew Brown disclosed that classified mission reports he read revealed how a large black triangle-shaped UFO ‘decloaked’ out of thin air over several Russian vessels in the Pacific.
‘The [NGOs] I worked with were trying to figure out how these rather large craft, which people call triangles, would be able to disappear on a dime,’ Banduric explained.
‘These triangles were taking whatever was behind them and actually projecting it in front of them, which might be equivalent to taking the light rays and bending it around the actual triangle,’ he added.
Although Banduric did not reveal how many of these craft had been seen or were in the possession of the US government, another guest on the Ecosystemic Futures podcast did.
Dr Puthoff noted that the US military had recovered and were studying at least 10 extraterrestrial craft since the 1940s.
