Crashed UFOs and Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows [Spoiler Alert]

I finished reading this finally, long overdue but I’ve been busy and it’s a pretty long book.

Again: SPOILERS!!!!

Don’t read on if you don’t want the ending ruined.

So. At the end of the book. The character Allen had a few crash landings, and he also shoots down a couple enemy ships. If you have read the book you know these ships are flown by humans and not aliens, designed from tech from an unknown source. At the very end of the book, Allen rams a disc into an orb and upon examining the wreckage they discover a human and an alien working together to pilot the orb… which is interesting.

So, obviously the main conclusion being the tech is alien. But another conclusion is that, maybe these crashes aren’t aliens crashing. Maybe they are human pilots that are learning to fly and making mistakes. Maybe that’s why the military seems to be able to know where they are or where they crash almost before they crash, and they are able to retrieve them so quickly…?

A lot of people have the argument: “well if the tech is so advanced then why does it still crash”?

And a lot of people default to countering “well everything has to crash eventually”. Which is a fair argument to an extant.

But on the other hand. Maybe the tech is so advance that the only reason it’s crashing is because humans are the source of error. We still don’t know how to pilot them yet, or we simply don’t have the capacity to pilot them.

Maybe there are some craft that we are working on or developing in some sort of partnership, and then there are other countries that don’t have that partnership that have retrieved crashed ships from failed missions or test flights?

Or, maybe there are partnerships with every country to level the playing field 🤷. Or maybe every country that has reached some milestone in technological development.

Just an interesting thought that the book opens up that I haven’t really seen discussed on here.