How much did the FAA really know?

[Syx]

Maybe an answer to this was given in the autio commentary but I don't have access to it (and don't have a lot of free money to toss around atm), but did anyone else get a real conspiracy-theory type feeling from that whole scene?

The scene seemed to have an almost "UFO Area 51 coverup" look to it. The FAA guys are dressed like the 'Men in Black' and tell them not to say anything about the incident. Ok, I can see logical reasons for it that don't involve coverups or conspiracies, but this isn't what really got me. The thing that caught my eye is one worker near the engine who is wearing what appears to be a radiation suit (could also just be a heat suit but tha doesn't make sense because even if the engine had overheated, caught on fire or something, it's had 6-8 hours to cool down and there was no sign of a fire on the house ). It's logical to assume that an object that passed through a wormhole might be exposed to some kind of radiation, and a suit like that is meant to protect from a bit more than anything you'd expect to have to deal with from a fallen plane engine (unless the plane just happened to be shot down with a nuclear warhead). The same worker also sprays the engine with something (no clue what this might be, but perhaps he was covering up the serial number that supposedly got burned off?). Any input?

[Twitchmonkey]

It probably is a coverup.....they dont want lawsuits and people worrying about flying but it doesnt mean they know anything

[zmol]

Erm, just my 2 cents.... All aircraft parts have their 'life story' logged. You can take any piece of metal and trace it back to where, when and who made it, what tests it was subject to, what other parts were cut from the same original sheet, who made the original sheet, who okayed the manufacturing process...etc

The FAA would not have to wait for an airliner to report a missing engine, a brief inspection of the engine and a call to the database would tell them that there were two 'instances' of the engine. One embedded in a house and another working perfectly fine on its aircraft.
The FAA would certainly know something was very strange.