"[2][3]: 58 [1]: 82 The book revolves around the Air Force's Fortec program, short for Foreign Technology Division, charged with studying and reverse-engineering other nations' technical advancements.

[1] The back cover of the book explains: "Scientist Barney Russom was determined to find out the truth behind his twin brother’s reputed 'suicide', for he knew the Air Force was lying about the death.

But he had no way of knowing the enormity of the lie until he penetrated FORTEC security and saw with his own eyes what the Government was hiding: five tiny coffins — and sealed within them, an alien disease that threatened to destroy the world.

"[3] In 1974, science fiction author and UFO enthusiast Robert Spencer Carr began publicly claiming that alien bodies from a crash in Aztec, New Mexico were kept at "Hangar 18" at Wright-Patterson.

Folklorist Toby Smith noted the works' influence on the Roswell incident myth, arguing "The Fortec Conspiracy did nearly as much to churn the Dayton-Roswell rumor mill as Hangar 18".