You remember very vividly how strongly your family felt about the government shutting down the space exploration program. They'd done it over 50 years ago, after a terrible accident took the lives of over two dozen people.
You, now an adult and an accomplished biologist, have been summoned by the federal government.
As you enter the top secret facility, you are asked to keep everything you see confidential.
They take you into a room. Laid out on a table is a being very clearly not from Earth.