He said regarding the original Star Trek with Kirk or you mean that the old head of Lockheed was saying in 1992 that government or whatever had Star Trek level tech? And that they or others are ten years ahead of that? Or that they are ten years ahead of what is available for consumers in the general public.

I would say it seems according to some that they ended up in possessions of UFOs around the 1940s or whenever it was, that they went on to reverse engineer the tech.

It could be that some tech/UFOs does come from a combination of places be it from aliens, other planets, from within our planet, from other people, from other beings/lifeforms/creatures, from other points in time or dimensions; perhaps some of it was reversed engineered from UFOs and also from other things discovered from all around the world be it in the pyramids, in the secret underground libraries and vaults of Vatican City, etc.

My theory is it is likely a wide variety of combinations of different things happening all at the same time. Some blackmailing happening. Cover-ups happen. I do like the Dark Journalist.