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Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a Ufo

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Crash at Corona is a finely researched book about the UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947. Don Berliner does a superb job of explaining the goings on at Roswell during the incident as well as the impact it had on the government's attitude about withholding information about the existance of exterrestrial craft visiting our planet. The startling element about this book that sets it apart from other UFO books about this subject is that the statements within are backed up by reasoning and research by Stanton Friedman. Mr.Friedman's tireless campaign of searching many archieves and the interviewing of eye witnesses adds greatly to this endeavor. Mr.Friedman believes in "research by investigation rather than proclamation". Here is an individual that has personally interviewed most of the witnesses involved in the incident that is willing to talk and still alive. I highly recommend this book and strongly urge those interested in UFO's and government conspiracies to purchase and read it.

If you have ever taken interest in the UFO phenomenon and the grandest UFO story of all, the Roswell crash, this is the book for you. But it shouldn't be the only book you read on he subject.

The credentials of the author, Stanton Friedman, are impressive. Before he began working on UFO research, he was a respected nuclear physicist who worked on nuclear-thermal rockets. He takes a scientific approach to his research, and he has done a thorough job researching most of his material.

The point of the book is simple: an object of unknown (read: extraterrestrial) origin crashed in Corona, NM on July 2, 1947. At he same time, another UFO went down over the Plains of San Agustin. The US government realized the implications of these events and immediately confiscated all the evidence.

My complaints? Well, Friedman steadfastly denies claims made by his fellow researcher, Kevin Randle, that the main body of the craft went down just north of Roswell. He has subsequently debunked a lot of Randle's witnesses to that event, but little of that appears here. On the other hand, he presents the San Agustin crash with the testimony of only two individuals, one of whom died twenty years ago. It is possible that this event is the same as the "Socorro Crash" that Heseman and Mantell describe in their "Beyond Roswell." And Friedman defends the idea that a group named "Majestic 12" has withheld the UFO secrets since Roswell. Although there was some evidence suporting MJ-12 at the time, the idea has fallen from favor in the UFO community after fraudulent MJ-12 documents were discovered.

Crash at Corona is still the most scientific and accurate look at the confusing events in Roswell in July 1947. Still, the book should not be your only reference on this potentially world-shattering event. A true scientist and truth-seeker would read all of the Roswell books and draw their own conclusions.

I heard Mr. Friedman speak at a local college and was intrigued by his speech. I bought this book and was amazed. I had heard about the Roswell crash, but never in such detail. He has names, places, and lots of evidence to point towards a huge government conspiracy. A must read for UFO junkies and conspiracy freaks

Starts off as a fascinating overview of the "Roswell Incident" in July 1947, what was known, suspected or guessed at the time, how the story was buried and forgotten about by the US press under military orders, and what came to light over the years since - which is, admittedly, not a great deal. Unfortunately, in my opinion the authors indulge in far too much speculation about what might have happened and why, and again in my opinion their conclusions are incomplete at best and flawed at worst. While supposedly trying to consider all possibilities they did not consider the chance that the whole thing might have been a staged event to seed an idea for future use; nor did they entertain the idea that this might all have been a diversion for something else that happened elsewhere around the same time. Or even at another time. To my mind it is strange that the military clamped down on the story so quickly; in my own experience nothing apart from extremely loud bangs will rouse the military into immediate action, not least because most of them are inebriated.

One more possibility eluded the authors: that there WAS an alien craft, and possibly bodies, which had been deliberately planted for us to "discover". The reason no-one could work out where the drive unit was located was because it had been removed; they who had left this "gift" didn't want us to run before we could walk. This idea was suggested in another book (Apollo & The Whistle Blowers by Bennett & Percy) and I have to say I find it intriguing, especially in light of the "crop circle" phenomenon. Unfortunately these authors are not quite so broad-minded and the idea is not considered.

There is the additional aspect that the whole story rests on eyewitness testimony - eyewitness testimony of course being at the bottom of the generally-accepted evidential hierarchy. And whilst the authors are very open about the fact that the vast majority of evidence is nothing more than eyewitness testimony, it seemed to me they forgot this and concluded what they wanted to believe. Whilst on the surface there appears to be little reason for the US military to "over-react" as they seemed to, there is also a possibility that this was all a staged event. This is overall an intriguing story and an easy read, a culmination of many years of patient and painstaking detective work, it left me with about the same impression detective generally do: incomplete, too speculative, and with conclusions too strongly shaped by preconceived ideas.

Stanton Friedman: One of the very few scientists ufologists who make sense.
He researches the topic.
He provides uncontested data.
He defied the arrogant scientists.
He studied the phenomena as an honest scientist.
He spent 30 years investigation Ufos.
He knows!
He knows!
His books are the very core of Ufology.
He is the ONE!

S. Mahdi, Cairo, Egypt.