I was going to say, live specimen of what? I'm sure at some point, either X-COM (if it existed back then) or some badass commando outfit got a team aboard a Fog ship and discovered to their dismay that there was nobody on board, and that the ship itself didn't appear to give a shit that they were there. It just kept shelling Vladivostok or Darwin or Puerto Vallarta or wherever until they gave up trying to find stuff on board they could break with their tiny weapons and left. :)

(That will have led directly to the "Hey, Let's Smuggle a Nuke Aboard One of These Things" plan, which... didn't work out.)

That said, I like the image of a battered and disheveled Dr. Vahlen standing by the jagged hole in the base that's where Alien Containment used to be (think of the bit of Yucca Mountain where they kept the other MUTO in Godzilla 2014), reporting to Bradford that as far as she could tell from the psychomonitors before they were destroyed, the captured X-ray Victor ("extraterrestrial vessel") seemed to believe that the entire process of destroying half the base and escaping was some form of carnival.

--G.
"Also, it spoke Japanese, which I suppose is not that surprising given that it was an Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser."
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