I want to believe it, but I don't know which way Occam's razor falls on this. It's probably more reasonable to believe that these lawyers managed to game the patent office into accepting it...

Is it? Or is it more likely that a well-funded US government branch aimed at researching new technology actually managed to discover, or replicate, new technology?

There's something buzzing around in the skies. Most sightings most likely have more simple explanations, but there are enough sightings to convince me that there's probably someone buzzing around the skies with shinier hardware than we would expect them to. I'm not saying they're extraterrestrial but they do come from somewhere, and if someone has something that advanced it's only logical that US armed forces are looking into it -- _especially_ if we assume the source is Chinese or Russian and there are intelligence reports backing it up.

What if, and bare with me here, there's some super exotic technologies that we've been working on for a long time and we're this close to making it work and are concerned that the Chinese, notorious patent trolls, will get there first - and then as a preemptive strategy the Navy files these but intentionally obscures the relevant (almost real) physics?

Of course the question then becomes: why even mention this stuff at all? It's not the the Military would really care about a patent in that sense.

I don't believe it either, but The X-Files fan in me can't help but wonder.