Hangar 18 story
Some government officials attempt a cover-up following a UFO incident aboard the Space Shuttle.
12 total · 8 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien overseers | major | Bancroft and Price pieced together that aliens had been watching over humankind from the dawn of time. |
| aliens meddling in ancient history | major | Bancroft and Price discovered that the human race was the offspring of the aliens, and that the aliens taught humans writing, built the pyramids and all that stuff. |
| conspiracy theory | major | High-level government officials conspired to keep secret from the public news that NASA had recovered a crashed flying saucer. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Two deceased humanoid aliens were recovered from the flying saucer and autopsied. |
| facing a conspiracy | major | Bancroft and Price worked together to prove the government was conspiracy to keep secret from the public news of the recovery of a crashed flying saucer. |
| flying saucer | major | NASA recovered a crashed flying saucer and kept it for study in Hangar 18 of a military base. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | major | NASA recovered an alien flying saucer and subsequently covered it up. |
| government secrecy | major | The President's aide Gordon Cain conspired with high ranking NASA officials to keep secret from the public their recovery of an alien spacecraft until after the upcoming election. He feared news of the discovery would harm the President's chances at securing reelection. |
| electioneering in society | minor | Gordon Cain orchestrated the cover-up of the discovery a crashed flying saucer until such time as the US presidential election was over. He feared that news of the flying saucer getting out to the public would jeopardize the President's chances of being reelected. |
| fusion power | minor | The flying saucer was discovered to have a hydrogen fusion power source. |