Geolocation Exercises

[FatPhil]

Alien Reproduction Vehicle, a flying saucer made by the US military using captured alien technology.

Wow, so that was quite a false dichotomy being presented. Alien or alien clone (specifically the Area 51 craft, it appears), that's all you get to chose from.
https://www.altpropulsion.com/mark-mccandlish-reverse-engineering-the-flux-liner-arv/

Less than 5 months before his tragic death, Mark McCandlish delivered a final detailed, technical presentation on the legendary Alien Reproduction Vehicle (ARV) at the Alt Propulsion Conference. In a field crowded with rumor and recycled lore, McCandlish tried to do something unusually specific: treat the ARV story like an engineering problem—naming parts, proposing materials, describing electrical pathways, and arguing that multiple witness traditions converged on the same architecture. The result was less a "UFO story" than a guided tour through a speculative machine—one he insisted was reverse-engineered, human-built, and dangerously real.

Which links to 3 hours of babbling on the matter.

 

[purpleivan]

Oh no, not more improbable jargon/ dodgy TLAs from the UFO scene. I'm not sure it's grammatical. Maybe Reproduced (or Replica) Alien Vehicle?
-If we copied a Toyota we probably wouldn't call it a Japanese Reproduction Vehicle.
Alien Reproduction Vehicle sounds like a cozy little UFO carrying suitably chromosomally diverse beings after touchdown on a Friday night.

The word reproduction is used in this way for other things, for example "reproduction furniture", i.e. copies of period furniture.

However, when first reading "Alien Reproduction Vehicle", I thought this was something related to the idea of human/alien hybrids, or similar fantasies.

 

[JMartJr]

However, when first reading "Alien Reproduction Vehicle", I thought this was something related to the idea of human/alien hybrids, or similar fantasies.

So we know it has a back seat...

 

[John J.]

The word reproduction is used in this way for other things,

Yes, it was the word order rather than the word that grates with me.
"Alien reproduction vehicle" might suggest a vehicle reproduced by aliens, or a vehicle connected to the reproduction of aliens. Reproduction Alien Vehicle, maybe Alien Vehicle Reproduction makes more sense (to me!)