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The Day After Roswell Mass Market Paperback – June 1, 1998
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Backed by documents newly declassified through the Freedom of Information Act, Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret.), a member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and former head of the Foreign Technology Desk in the US Army, has come forward to reveal his personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the Roswell crash. He tells us how he spearheaded the Army’s reverse-engineering project that led to today’s integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, and super-tenacity fibers, and “seeded” the Roswell alien technology to giants of American industry. Laying bare the US government’s shocking role in the Roswell incident—what was found, the cover-up, and how they used alien artifacts to change the course of twentieth-century history—The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that not only forces us to reconsider the past, but also our role in the universe.
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPocket Books
- Publication dateJune 1, 1998
- Dimensions4.19 x 1 x 6.75 inches
- ISBN-10067101756X
- ISBN-13978-0671017569
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Sharon Chance Times Record News (Wichita Falls, TX) The Day After Roswell could be the most significant and important book since the Bible.
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Integrated circuit chips
Fiber optics
Lasers
Super-tenacity fibers
and "seeded" the Roswell alien technology to giants of American industry. Laying bare the U.S. government's shocking role in the Roswell incident -- what was found, the cover-up, and how theyused alien artifacts to change the course of twentieth-century history -- "The Day After Roswell" is an extraordinary memoir that not only forcesus to reconsider the past, but also our role in the universe.
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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.
Broadly speaking, I have two majors issues with this book-first, the grandiose claims that Corso makes that again, I feel insulted by the fact that he'd even expect us to believe- and two, the fact his story telling is incomplete and he fails to elaborate on his beliefs that extra terrestrials are in fact hostile (and I know everyone that read this book has to agree that he completely left this part unanswered). So let's unpack the details:
First of all-I'm calling complete BS on the claim that HE started the fervor that became the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. Are you kidding me????? Because you were apparently the only patriotic person in Washington that felt compelled to force Jack Kennedy's hand in the matter? That whole even was well documented, and it was a fact that Kennedy didn't try and turn tail and run to his Martha's Vineyard sanctuary. He stayed in Washington and faced the issue head on. The fact that Corso wanted the reader to believe he was the lone patriot that wouldn't stand for those Communists putting missiles in our back yard. Complete and utter nonsense. So this is the first major dent in his credibility.
Secondly, it's completely unfathomable that a career military man with no advanced schooling in any particular sciences (he referenced a bachelor's degree of engineering was the extent of his schooling) would be able to see the potential of a handful of the most important technological inventions of the 20th century over the course of ONE year, all from looking over his stupid "nut file" (and can someone please explain why he kept on referring to it as a "nut file"???). Really Corso, you expect us to believe that it took you ONE night of going over the Roswell files that you were able to come up with recommendations on what would later become the technology behind night vision goggles, laser technology in ALL of its many facets, dehydrated food, computer chips and bullet proof Kevlar vests? Do you realize how many scientific disciplines all of those items encompass? No one individual can look at all of those apparent Roswell crash items and overnight come up with recommendations that would set the course for the creation of these items. Again, complete and utter nonsense that insults the reader's intelligence. I know he kept on referencing this "brain trust" (i.e., the MJ 12 scientists), but he explicitly took credit for the shepherding of these items through Army R&D.
Now there's many more smaller items that I can sit and poke and argue that Corso is outright telling a tall tale, however I'll move on to my second major issue with his book which is the lack of completeness in his telling of this grandiose tale. This to me was the BIGGEST question mark in the book-the underlying thesis, as I read it, was that the American military through the capture of an alien space craft at Roswell, built new technologies that we as American's leveraged not only against our Cold War enemies the Soviet Union, but also the more sinister and highly dangerous extra terrestrials that terrorize our skies. But he never once clearly explained how we could deem these extra terrestrials hostile. Corso kind of eluded to the reasoning behind such an assumption lied in the fact that these extra terrestrials simply didn't land and say "hello, we're here!" and instead chose to test the boundaries of our defense capabilities. Reading chapter after chapter (and my assumption was chapter 7, titled "Hostile Intentions and the Other Cold War" would get to it) I expected Corso to cut to the chase and explain that we had clear proof that these extra terrestrials' intentions were in fact hostile. Yet he never once clearly established that. The logic, according to Corso, behind ALL of our military advancements in the second half of the 20th century had some underlying intention to protect ourselves against these hostile extra terrestrials. But again, he didn't explain how the American military came to that conclusion. Yet when our military supposedly had a small victory in 1974 with the successful shoot down of a UFO, he goes into ZERO detail. Don't bring it up if you don't know the details behind it!!!! Additionally, over half of the book is a history lesson on the underlying technologies that he so humbly took credit for throughout the book. I felt that it was a lot of filler without giving us a complete understanding of this narrative.
And let's not also forget the all important detail that senator Strom Thurmand-the senator who unwittingly provided his endorsement of the book by providing the foreword for the book-later rescinded the use of his foreword when he found out what the book was actually about. That to me says a lot about the credibility of this story.
I guess this now begs the question why make such a story up? Who the hell really knows. An old man who wanted to try and make himself sound more important than he really was before he passed on? It sounded like he already had an interesting career-maybe it just wasn't enough for him? Again, who the hell really knows, all I know is that this book read like fiction, and 99% of it was complete and utter nonsense. And you can tell. The simple fact of the matter is this-any writer that lacks humility in his writing can already be difficult to believe. Any writer that lacks humility when writing on topics that are of a highly skeptical nature are almost impossible to believe. I wanted to give Col. Corso the benefit of a doubt when approaching this book, but at the end of the day I felt like I was duped into reading a science fiction novel. Don't waste your time.
If you've become aware of the fact that UFOs are real, this book is a must-read in order to maintain your sanity. If you're anything like me, it's hard to believe such a cover-up could persist for so many years, but this book clearly explains why that determination was made as well as why it is slowly unravelling today. Absolutely fascinating.
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The book is an exposé, and blows the lid off the UFO cover-up, or at least the US Army part of it, which started with the removal of the wreckage of the crashed craft in July 1947. One thing is clear from the book, that a number of military, intelligence and corporate agencies in the United States all have their fingers in the UFO/alien pie, but only a very select few in each of those organisations has access and knowledge. So, the cover-up is a multi-headed Hydra, operating in silos, all suspicious of each other, and vying for control over the technology.
My approach to this book was not as a sceptic undecided about the Roswell incident, but as someone already convinced about UFO/alien reality and trying to put the pieces together that are true and filter out the bunk. The book is highly regarded by UFO researchers like Richard Dolan and Ross Coulthart. My main doubts are the questions about the aliens' motives, and here I think we are talking about the species known as greys, or Ebens, the owners of the Roswell spacecraft. Are they peaceful, as Dr Steven Greer believes, or are they a threat, as Colonel Corso clearly believed? I tend towards the view they have a complex agenda, not particularly concerned with our well-being, and may well be thoroughly deceptive.
I think this is an important book, and part of the UFO/alien technology puzzle. I'll certainly never look at certain electronic components and fibre optics in quite the same way again.
Colonel Corso served as an investigator on the Warren Commission which investigated the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, in the White House advising President Eisenhower, under General MacArthur during the Korean war; as well as in a litany of other highly reputable posts in American government. While his résumé speaks for itself, there are repeated parts in the book where it really feels like he has a chip on his shoulder. The narrative frequently veers away from anything to do with extra-terrestrials and into tirades accusing domestic organisations (such as the CIA and NASA) of harbouring Soviet fifth-columnists. It seems these sour grapes come from the fact Colonel Corso was not appointed to a prestigious position in the Vietnam war as he hoped to be.
For those familiar with ufology, Colonel Corso covers a number of pertinent issues besides the Roswell crash alone (such as Majestic-12, Project Blue Book, cattle mutilations and others). It is very illuminating to receive an insider's perspective on these topics as well as the Roswell crash generally. The writing occasionally gets mired down in the minutiae of technological history, but it broadly sticks to the issue of the influence of the Roswell crash in American (and world) history. I do believe the claims made by Colonel Corso are fundamentally true, but that is not substantive to the worth of the book. Even if you think everything the Colonel says is complete baloney, there is still a decent book here to be read and subjected to analysis.













