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The Day after Roswell (1997)

by Philip Corso

Other authors: William J. Birnes

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:A breathtaking exposé that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious unidentified aircraft crash are still relevant today.
/> Former member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and the Foreign Technology Desk in the United States Army, Colonel Philip J. Corso was assigned to work at a strange crash site in Roswell in 1947. He had no idea that his work there would change his life and the course of history forever. Only in his fascinating memoir can you discover how he helped removed alien artifacts from the site and used them to help improve much of the technology the Army uses today, such as circuit chips, fiber optics, and more.

Laying bare the United States government's shocking role in the Roswell incidentâ??what was found, the cover-up, and moreâ??The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that not only forces us to reconsider the past, but also our role in the u… (more)
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Re-read this book again, since the plethora of news on the subject makes me think that the powers-that-be are angling for a revealing news release soon. I enjoyed the re-read. ( )
  buffalogr | Aug 19, 2023 |
Picked up this book when I visited Roswell last summer - I was hoping this would be a better book about what actually happened. This guy says this is an accounting of what actually happened - which maybe it is - but the book was sparse on details of the actual crash and more about all of the technology derived from the wreckage. ( )
  donhazelwood | Apr 10, 2022 |
Most reviewers wonder if Corso is telling the truth. Where one stands on that, probably depends upon one's preconceived notions about the subject. Corso really has nothing to gain by lying, therefore it must be. His book is written based on a 2 year assignment in the Pentagon during the early 1960s. That alone would indicate that there were others who held this position before and since...wondering why they have not come forward? That said, this is likely the most credible book on the subject or the Roswell "crash." A fascinating Cold War memoir. The reader must dig through tons of self aggrandizement. ( )
  buffalogr | Mar 12, 2018 |
I have never read such gibberish in my life!! I find it hard to believe this was written by a Colonel who wrote official military reports. It is badly written, badly researched, over written, and waffles.

I also find it hard to believe that many technologies we now take for granted such as integrated circuitry, lasers and even stealth technology were spoon fed to large companies and reverse engineered from alien materials while tricking the companies into thinking they had invented the materials themselves. I suppose I am a little sceptical.

I particularly enjoyed this paragraph:

"By the time President Nixon returned from China, having agreed to turn over Vietnam to the Communists, he had effectively turned the Soviets' flank in the Cold War. For the next decade, the Soviets felt caught between the Chinese, with whom they'd fought border wars in the past, and the United States.When President Ronald Reagan demonstrated to Mikhail Gorbachev that the United States was capable of deploying an effective antimissile missile defense and sought Soviet cooperation in turning it against the extraterrestrials, all pretext of the Cold War ended and the great Soviet monolith in Eastern Europe began to crumble."

Of course!! The whole idea of Vietnam was to eventually hand it to the Communists in order to eventually win the Cold War...and attack aliens, if only those poor people who died knew what they were fighting for, sheesh.

This book is full of crazed ideas such as this. If I was a conspiracy nut I would probably enjoy it, but reading it just made me mad. ( )
  KatiaMDavis | Dec 19, 2017 |
I thought this would be a good alien story, turns out the author re-writes some of the most important events from the second half of the 20th century! Invention of the integrated circuit, laser, kevlar vests, fiber optics are all alien "seeded" inventions. Also the author played a key role leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Wow! ( )
  RFBrost | Nov 2, 2017 |
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Be sure you're right, then go ahead.  Davy Crockett
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In memory of Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau. This great man was my superior as chief of U.S. Army Research and Development.  He was a man of great courage; he put on a sergeant's helmet and fought with his men at Pork Chop Hill in Korea.  He was deeply religious and went on "retreats" at Loyola.  He was the most brilliant man I have ever known, who only gave me one standing order: "Watch things for me Phil.  The rest do not understand."
     His accomplishments changed the world for the better.  Any success I had I attribute to him and to his leadership.
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My name is Philip J. Corso, and for two incredible years back in the 1960s while I was a lieutenant colonel in the army, heading up the Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and Development at the Pentagon, I led a double life.
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:A breathtaking exposé that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious unidentified aircraft crash are still relevant today.
Former member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and the Foreign Technology Desk in the United States Army, Colonel Philip J. Corso was assigned to work at a strange crash site in Roswell in 1947. He had no idea that his work there would change his life and the course of history forever. Only in his fascinating memoir can you discover how he helped removed alien artifacts from the site and used them to help improve much of the technology the Army uses today, such as circuit chips, fiber optics, and more.

Laying bare the United States government's shocking role in the Roswell incidentâ??what was found, the cover-up, and moreâ??The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that not only forces us to reconsider the past, but also our role in the u

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