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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Define "unknown origin".
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https://www.congress.gov/amendment/1...dment/797/text
"18) Technologies of unknown origin.--The term
``technologies of unknown origin'' means any materials or
meta-materials, ejecta, crash debris, mechanisms, machinery,
equipment, assemblies or sub-assemblies, engineering models
or processes, damaged or intact aerospace vehicles, and
damaged or intact ocean-surface and undersea craft associated
with unidentified anomalous phenomena or incorporating
science and technology that lacks prosaic attribution or
known means of human manufacture."
"(14) Prosaic attribution.--The term ``prosaic attribution''
means having a human (either foreign or domestic) origin and
operating according to current, proven, and generally
understood scientific and engineering principles and
established laws-of-nature and not attributable to non-human
intelligence."
" (21) Unidentified anomalous phenomena.--
(A) In general.--The term ``unidentified anomalous
phenomena'' means any object operating or judged capable of
operating in outer-space, the atmosphere, ocean surfaces, or
undersea lacking prosaic attribution due to performance
characteristics and properties not previously known to be
achievable"