"One interview brought us face-to-face with an architect of the Soviet SDI program, a highly regarded scientist whose identity cannot be publicized. When questioned about whether the UFO phenomenon was real, he quickly responded, "My colleagues and I don't think that's a question. Of course they are real." The exchange of information between aliens and humans, the scientist claims, has led to the development of the "weapon of the aliens," the plasma beam, which was incorporated into SDI. He confirmed Russian awareness as early as 1959 that UFOs were from somewhere else. The Americans knew too, he said, because both sides had the same type of satellite defense warning system."