I get the strong impression that inside the U.S. government there are people who are trying to slowly bring to the attention of not just the American public, but the world, the fact that potentially, and I'm not saying this for sure, potentially, we are not alone.
Which therein lies the problem is that they're dealing with something that's not possible with, like, you couldn't build it from scratch with American technology in 1989.
In American flag use law, the only thing we were able to ascertain is the fact that on military or on vehicles, anything military on a uniform, if ever you see an American flag on your right shoulder, it's reversed because it's how the wind is blowing the flag.