I have found this book only recently, although I was already well informed about UFO sightings and the Roswell crash. Yet, I decided to read the book and to write a review because as a scientist and an observer from the other side (during those years Corso is speaking about) I am able to evaluate the material from a different angle. First, the book provided additional info to what I already knew. Information not only about the incident itself but about harvesting the spacecraft debris and their reverse-engineering that resulted in the development of fiber optics, lasers, super-tenacity fibers, night vision, and integrated circuit chips (that opened a new era for computers) that tremendously advanced American industries, enabling, eventually, the Strategic Defense Initiative dubbed as “Star Wars.” Officially the latter was directed against the USSR but this was only a cover for a secret agenda against extraterrestrials.
As Corso claimed, the weapons developed as a result of the Roswell harvest and of seeding spacecraft elements of technology into the American scientific institutions facilitated by the leading German scientists like Werner von Braun, Hans Kohler, and Hermann Oberth might allow to neutralize aliens’ attacks and, thereby, prevent colonization of the Earth.
Although the use of the USSR as a cover for this agenda worked well, the resulting demonization of the country and its threat to the West caused hostility and split in the international community, though both “Americans and Soviets knew they weren’t going to launch a first strike . . ,” Colonel Corso wrote (p.292). Indeed, the number of warheads each side had, exceeded more than ten times the number needed to completely destroy all nuclear missile arsenal of the other side. What for? Colonel’s explanation seems reasonable: “capabilities to defend ourselves against extraterrestrials.” His interpretation of the end of the Cold War is also interesting. He did not say that the Soviet failed in this terrible war. He said that President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev eventually came to a meeting of the minds about UFOs . . .Gorbachev was also pleased because President Reagan guaranteed that the United States would throw their defensive shield around the Soviet Union, too (p.293).
I was especially surprised to learn how the CIA hand in hand collaborated with the KGB, how the Air and Army forces competed for influence and funding, how the Pentagon kept the truth about the actual state of matter away not only from the American public but also from the American government. It is clear from the testimonies of the Colonel, who had ninth level security clearance, that the conflict between these structures and the government is to blame for President Kennedy’s assassination. Seems Colonel himself being the head of Foreign Technologies Desk at the U.S. Army’s Research and Development Dept. (he performed with excellence) retired from his job not following his own will.
Although the technologies used for the propulsion of those alien spaceships are still under research and we may doubt whether anything like this existed at all, the “quantum leap” in the development of the new American technologies (literally overnight) could explain the puzzle how it could happen that instead of germanium and selenium diodes, scrupulously researched by such renown scientists as Bardeen and Shockley, suddenly appeared semiconducting wafers, made of silicon doped with arsenic that caused a revolution in transistors’ technology. The same is true about other technologies Corso is talking about.
CONTRADICTIONS. I am sure there must be a number of contradictions simply based on the fact that Corso was talking about the national secrets. Here is one of those contradictions. According to Corso, lasers arrived straight from the site of the crash (plus from observations of UFOs). The other sources give us the date of the development of the first laser – 1958 and its first demonstration in 1960 that is in agreement with Corso’s claim. On the page 293, however, he wrote, “Once launched and tested, our space-based high energy laser acted like a lightning bolt on the nights of July 3 and 4 (1947) that so thoroughly disrupting the electromagnetic wave propagators in the spacecraft flying over Roswell that the pilots were not able to retain control over their vehicle (spacecraft).” A question arises: how could the military use anything they had no idea about at the time?
Other contradictions and controversies became obvious after I watched presentations of Phil Corso Junior on youtube. It seems the son has his own story to tell. During the course of the book, Colonel spoke always about space travel, and he painted aliens having hostile intentions, for the sightings of UFOs were more often observed at the locations of the military bases. He also told us about mutilation of cattle and people abductions. Corso Junior, on the other hand, tells us a story about time travel and the Bermuda Triangle. He said our time is altered due to those technologies adopted from the Roswell spacecraft. And this technological jump can’t last forever. Besides, he claims that time travel nowadays is routine, at least for the military. Also, to prevent disasters that without Roswell technologies would hit us, the spacecraft (identical to the original) needs to be sent back in the future in a thirty-year frame. He is also talking about God, creation, even re-incarnation. Nothing like this did I find in the book. While the story told by Colonel Corso seems plausible at least within certain limitations, the story offered by his son fosters mistrust about the whole initiative.
Incredible reading (occasionally confusing) accompanied with analysis of technological and political advances followed "the seeding" of Roswell's technologies and demonstrating military control over the government and society as a whole.
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