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William J. Birnes

Philip J. Corso

The Day After Roswell Paperback – July 1, 1997

by Col. Philip J. Corso (Author), William J. Birnes (Author)

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The former head of the Foreign Technology Desk at the U.S. Army's Research & Development department discloses the government's role in the incident, explaining what actually happened and its implications.

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352 pages
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English
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Simon & Schuster Pocket Books
Publication date

July 1, 1997
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6.5 x 1.5 x 10 inches
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0671004611
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978-0671004613
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Paul Sulla Gonzales

Revealing

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2023

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Colonel Phil Corso revealed in his book the projects that were born after the rescue of the fallen UFO in Roswell. While some of the technologies were already under basic development, the debris from Roswell helped to understand the potential of a full-development of them, such as laser, optic fibers, integrated circuits, particle beam weapons, etc.

However, I found shocking the explanation of Col. Corso about the real reason why the US and URSS kept a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons during of the Cold War. According to Col. Corso, both superpowers had enough nuclear weapons not only to destroy their rival's arsenal, but the double of warheads to annihilate a portion of the planet that would be eventually invaded by the EBEs (extraterrestrial biological entities).

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dtmac47

IF all that is in the book is true why was it allowed to be released by the government ???

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2023

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Amazing story OR counter- intelligence . The first chapter grabs you like a Clive Cussler novel . Incredible book If it's true . I am still reading the book & will not be sure about what's in it until full disclosure occurs If that ever happens . I think that "Aliens" may be the futures great delusion the book of Revelations speaks of in the Holy Bible , Or as I've heard expressed another reason for the military industrial complex to continue.
It does corroborate Jesse Marcel's recant that the Roswell crash was not a weather balloon but an E.T. crash Vehicle. Good reading if your researching the topic.

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F16JetJock

A must read for all Americans

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2023

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Just completed my second read. Indeed, if only the major media, including The Epoch Times and Fox News, would publish quotes of Col. Corso’s tome. For anyone who watches Paranormal Caught On Camera and all of the other shows that evidence video of UAP’s, this book provides verification of the existence of both extraterrestrial and/or U.S. Space Force UAP’s and orbiting of both defensive and offensive directed-energy particle-beam weapons. Indeed, only a fool would deny the existence of the latter.

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Mike

Complete NONSENSE

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2018

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Garbage-absolute garbage. There's so many issues with this book, that I can't possibly recommend to any sensible individual read and BELIEVE the nonsense in this book. Just like others that have read this book, I was intrigued that a seemingly well credential career military intelligence man would speak out in such detail as to what may have happened with the Roswell crash. I first heard about "The Day After" when I watched an interview with Canada's former secretary of defense, Paul Hellyer, who spoke glowingly about the details that Col. Corso covered. I consider myself very open minded on the topic of extra terrestrial existence, and enjoy hearing the input on potential individuals in the know. I do believe there's something to the Roswell incident that has yet to be public, and somewhat yearn to hear from a credible individual what the truth actually was. But this book provides no CREDIBLE answers, and quite frankly, was more frustrating than insightful. Col. Corso insults the reader's intelligence, expecting us to believe one tall tale after another, while patting himself on the back over and over again by taking credit for stuff that he had no business taking credit for. With that said, let's break down the details.

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.

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Osiris

Excellent read, pieces of history make sense now

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2023

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I thoroughly enjoyed Day After Roswell, parts of it read like science fiction but Corso says it is the truth.
So many technologies evolved from Roswell, and given the timelines of human engineering much of what Corso puts forth makes sense.

My only problem is that Corso insists the Aliens are hostile. I disagree, but understand his purely military perspective- he thinks everyone is the enemy, including other departments within the Pentagon, the CIA, anyone not military, etc. if these alien beings were truly hostile, we wouldn’t be reading his book nor likely be alive. Corso can come off as a bit paranoid at times, but if his book is true, I can understand why.

Corso’s examples of this hostility are limited to alien craft snooping around military installations and those often mentioned cattle mutilations. We humans have done more to provoke these aliens by firing at them… but I digress. I do not know the truth, but at the very least, this book will set your imagination running wild!

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Peter J Van Rixoort

In depth treatment of the UFP UAP invasion

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2023

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Easy read, expands our understanding of Roswell

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2023

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Writing style is simple and flows well. Easy to read the whole book in one sitting. The author comes across as genuine, sincere, and maybe a little naïve. Easy to get into his head and understand the logic for why he's revealing details about the Roswell crash. This book is a must read on the subject of UAPs.

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Snoozer

Not sure about this, true or not?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2023

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Very good and absorbing read and really drew me in considered it true until the last couple of pages then seemed to turn into a thriller which took me aback. So not sure if fact or fiction. Either way a cracking read.

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Seeker

Fascinating Reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2022

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This. book is nearly 30 years old and I think that fact rather supports its position as much of. what it predicted has come true. The Cold War era emerges as dystopian - let alone, that of space.
I always start with the position of beings sympathetic to the UFO phenomenon but most of the books that I have read have thoroughly put me off - they are badly written, their authors do not know. how to product a. reasoned argument and lecture on the basis of led or. highly circumstantial evidence. In contrast, this book is highly readable and well argued. It is, of. course, essentially autobiographical but does not pretend to be anything but that. - you either believe Corso or. you do not. However, he makes no claim of. anything else.

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DMC

Very interesting read highly regarded by ufologists

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2022

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This book is basically a deathbed confession of Colonel Philip J. Corso, who was the US Army's point man for filtering technology recovered from the wreckage of the Roswell crash into US industry R&D, to utilise the technology for their own purposes. The co-author, William J. Burns, was his lawyer and probably more familiar to people as editor of UFO Magazine (in the US) and co-presenter of UFO Hunters on TV.

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.

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López

Muy interesante

Reviewed in Spain on March 17, 2023

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Interesantísimo, lo que se supone que ha visto y vivido este hombre, sobre todo la parte del área 51.
Una pena la edición, es muy casera.

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Don't start here

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2023

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If you've never read a UFO book before don't start here. Seeing the 4.5 star ratings for this book I thought it would be a 4.5 star read but a few chapters in I don't feel confident about it. I think it's entirely possible that some of our most sophisticated technology has come from ET but it would be odd if it actually came to us after we'd already invented it. On top of that, I didn't much care for the way this book has been ghost written. It feels a bit glib and glossed over. So I had a look on Reddit and apparently this chap's credentials don't check out terribly well. Now, that's not to say he isn't genuine but if you want to start your UFO journey it's always good to go to a fairly solid work first- I suggest Leslie Kean or Richard Dolan- and then build out from there.

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