I wish this was true, but its not.

Innovations come from guys working in garages.

So, what do you get from billions of dollars thrown at an area? More of the same.

Thus, 10 years and billions of dollars equals a printer that is cheaper and a bit more reliable, but its still a printer.

However, you cannot compare two groups of scientists who are working with different theories:

1. A group of govern-cement scientists who are working with an actual understanding of physics and have access to alien and ancient tech.
2. A group of scientists who believe such obviously stupid things like the earth is a ball, gravity keeps the galaxy together, the big bang, that god doesn't exist...

Basically, EVERYTHING taught in college science text books are wrong.
Starting from that place, and you find no new laws of the universe.

So, in the end, what happens is that a guy in a garage comes up with something that makes all the old stuff obsolete. And then we spend years perfecting it.

And, by the way, flying saucers are easy.
You just charge a flat condesor (they call them capacitors for some stupid reason) to millions of volts and it floats.
Its one of those things that isn't taught in science class, you have to go dig up the info. (because, if you think about this, then gravity as result of mass is wrong)

Now, you just need lots of money and engineers working at controlling it. Millions of volts is not easy to move around.