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The Day After Roswell The Truth Exposed After Fifty Years
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Published January 1, 1994
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May 21, 2024
A PRETTY “UNBELIEVABLE” AND “CONVENIENT” STORY
Philip James Corso (1915-1998) was an American Army officer, who retired in 1963 after 21 years of service.
He wrote in the Introduction to this 1997 book, “for two incredible years back in the 1960s … I was a lieutenant colonel … heading up the Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and Development at the Pentagon… Part of my job responsibility in Army R&D, however, was as an intelligence officer and adviser to General Trudeau… at the center of a double life I led that no one knew about … was a single file cabinet that I had inherited because of my intelligence background. That file held the army’s deepest and most closely guarded secret: the Roswell files, the cache of debris and information an army retrieval team … pulled out of the wreckage of a flying disk that had crashed outside the town of Roswell in the New Mexico desert… during the first week of July 1947… a covert group was assembled under the leadership of the director of intelligence, Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, to investigate the nature of the flying disks… while, at the same time, publicly and officially discounting the existence of all flying saucers. This operation has been going on, in one form or another, for fifty years amidst complete secrecy. I wasn’t in Roswell in 1947, nor had I heard any details about the crash at that time because it was kept so tightly under wraps…” (Pg. 1-3)
He continues, “In 1961… the top-secret file of Roswell information came into my possession with I took over the Foreign Technology desk at R&D… Today, items such as lasers, integrated circuitry, fiber-optics networks, accelerated particle-beam devices, and even the Kevlar material in bulletproof vests are all commonplace. Yet the seeds for the development of all of them were found in the crash of the alien craft at Roswell and turned up in my files fourteen years later… We didn’t know what the inhabitants of these crafts wanted, but we had to assume from their behavior, especially their interventions in the lives of human beings and the reported cattle mutilations, that they could be potential enemies… The military found itself fighting a two-front war… against the Communists… and, as unbelievable as it sounds, a war against the extraterrestrials… It was alien technology that we used: lasers, accelerated particle-beam weapons, and aircraft equipped with ‘Stealth’ technology. And in the end, we not only outlasted the Soviets … but we forced a stalemate with the extraterrestrials, who were not so invulnerable after all.” (Pg. 4-5)
He adds, “I didn’t assess the weight of our accomplishments at Army R&D, especially how we harvested the technology coming out of the Roswell crash, until thirty-five years later after I left the army when I sat down to write my memoirs … That was when I reviewed my old journals… and understood that the story of what happened in the days after the Roswell crash was perhaps the most significant story of the past fifty years. So, believe it or not, this is the story of what happened in the days after Roswell and how a small group of military intelligence officers changed the course of human history.” (Pg. 6)
He claims, “I became friends with these guys, and that’s what got me into the veterinary building on Sunday night, July 6, 1947… There were about thirty-odd wooden crates … stacked together against the far wall… I set to work on the crate… The contents, enclosed in a thick glass container, were submerged in a thick light blue liquid… I couldn’t see any pupils or iris or anything that resembled a human eye… The protruding ears of a human were nonexistent … The creature had only a tiny slit for a mouth… I could see no damage to the creature’s body and no indication that it had bene involved in any accident… Just forget about it, I told myself. You weren’t supposed to see it and maybe you can live your whole life without ever having to think about it. Maybe.” (Pg. 33-36)
Later, he states, “Air Force Intelligence … issued a December 1948 report… called ‘Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.,’ in which UFOs are … referred to as elements of ‘foreign technology’… The report… is actually one of the first indications showing how the camouflage plan was supposed to work over the ensuing years.” (Pg. 68-69)
He asserts, “we in the military knew that the PROFESSIONAL KGB leadership… were keeping as much information from the Soviet government as the CIA was keeping from our government… But when it came down to loyalty, the CIA was loyal to the KGB and vice versa.” (Pg. 93)
He says, “If we believed the heart and lungs seemed bioengineered for long-distance travel so, too, was the creature’s skeletal tissue… these entities appeared well suited for potential shocks and physical traumas of extreme forces and could withstand the fractures that would cripple human space travelers in a similar environment.” (Pg. 101-102)
He states, “experiments in replicated alien craft continued to be carried on through the years as engineers tried to adapt the propulsion and navigation systems to our level of technology. This continues to this very day… Over the years, the replicated vehicles have become an ongoing, inner-circle saga among top-ranking military officers and members of the government… Thus, the official camouflage is maintained despite the large number of people who really know the truth. I admit I’ve never seen the craft at Norton with my own eyes, but enough reports passed across my desk during my years at Foreign Technology so that I knew what the secret was and how it was maintained. There were no conventional technological explanations for the way the Roswell craft’s propulsion system operated…” (Pg. 109)
He asserts, “the depleted-uranium-tipped warhead saw action in the Gulf War… They were one of the great weapons-development successes of Army R&D that came out of what we learned from the Roswell crash.” (Pg. 241)
In the Afterword, he says, “You can ask how the government was able to keep this secret for so long. Has there been any other cover-up so efficient and thorough that it went on, unbeknownst to succeeding presidents, year after year until it was finally stopped? Ini fact, there was just such a cover-up… code-named ‘Shamrock]… This program continued for the next twenty-eight years and kept secret from every president until it was terminated under the Ford administration in 1975.” (Pg. 298-299)
So would Corso have violated his oath of secrecy? (Of course, if this book was actually FICTION, there would be no violation.) Or was he just trying to provide a ‘nest egg’ for his family in time for the 50th anniversary of the Roswell incident? (He died a year after this book was published.) ‘Caveat emptor,’ if you buy this book.
Philip James Corso (1915-1998) was an American Army officer, who retired in 1963 after 21 years of service.
He wrote in the Introduction to this 1997 book, “for two incredible years back in the 1960s … I was a lieutenant colonel … heading up the Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and Development at the Pentagon… Part of my job responsibility in Army R&D, however, was as an intelligence officer and adviser to General Trudeau… at the center of a double life I led that no one knew about … was a single file cabinet that I had inherited because of my intelligence background. That file held the army’s deepest and most closely guarded secret: the Roswell files, the cache of debris and information an army retrieval team … pulled out of the wreckage of a flying disk that had crashed outside the town of Roswell in the New Mexico desert… during the first week of July 1947… a covert group was assembled under the leadership of the director of intelligence, Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, to investigate the nature of the flying disks… while, at the same time, publicly and officially discounting the existence of all flying saucers. This operation has been going on, in one form or another, for fifty years amidst complete secrecy. I wasn’t in Roswell in 1947, nor had I heard any details about the crash at that time because it was kept so tightly under wraps…” (Pg. 1-3)
He continues, “In 1961… the top-secret file of Roswell information came into my possession with I took over the Foreign Technology desk at R&D… Today, items such as lasers, integrated circuitry, fiber-optics networks, accelerated particle-beam devices, and even the Kevlar material in bulletproof vests are all commonplace. Yet the seeds for the development of all of them were found in the crash of the alien craft at Roswell and turned up in my files fourteen years later… We didn’t know what the inhabitants of these crafts wanted, but we had to assume from their behavior, especially their interventions in the lives of human beings and the reported cattle mutilations, that they could be potential enemies… The military found itself fighting a two-front war… against the Communists… and, as unbelievable as it sounds, a war against the extraterrestrials… It was alien technology that we used: lasers, accelerated particle-beam weapons, and aircraft equipped with ‘Stealth’ technology. And in the end, we not only outlasted the Soviets … but we forced a stalemate with the extraterrestrials, who were not so invulnerable after all.” (Pg. 4-5)
He adds, “I didn’t assess the weight of our accomplishments at Army R&D, especially how we harvested the technology coming out of the Roswell crash, until thirty-five years later after I left the army when I sat down to write my memoirs … That was when I reviewed my old journals… and understood that the story of what happened in the days after the Roswell crash was perhaps the most significant story of the past fifty years. So, believe it or not, this is the story of what happened in the days after Roswell and how a small group of military intelligence officers changed the course of human history.” (Pg. 6)
He claims, “I became friends with these guys, and that’s what got me into the veterinary building on Sunday night, July 6, 1947… There were about thirty-odd wooden crates … stacked together against the far wall… I set to work on the crate… The contents, enclosed in a thick glass container, were submerged in a thick light blue liquid… I couldn’t see any pupils or iris or anything that resembled a human eye… The protruding ears of a human were nonexistent … The creature had only a tiny slit for a mouth… I could see no damage to the creature’s body and no indication that it had bene involved in any accident… Just forget about it, I told myself. You weren’t supposed to see it and maybe you can live your whole life without ever having to think about it. Maybe.” (Pg. 33-36)
Later, he states, “Air Force Intelligence … issued a December 1948 report… called ‘Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.,’ in which UFOs are … referred to as elements of ‘foreign technology’… The report… is actually one of the first indications showing how the camouflage plan was supposed to work over the ensuing years.” (Pg. 68-69)
He asserts, “we in the military knew that the PROFESSIONAL KGB leadership… were keeping as much information from the Soviet government as the CIA was keeping from our government… But when it came down to loyalty, the CIA was loyal to the KGB and vice versa.” (Pg. 93)
He says, “If we believed the heart and lungs seemed bioengineered for long-distance travel so, too, was the creature’s skeletal tissue… these entities appeared well suited for potential shocks and physical traumas of extreme forces and could withstand the fractures that would cripple human space travelers in a similar environment.” (Pg. 101-102)
He states, “experiments in replicated alien craft continued to be carried on through the years as engineers tried to adapt the propulsion and navigation systems to our level of technology. This continues to this very day… Over the years, the replicated vehicles have become an ongoing, inner-circle saga among top-ranking military officers and members of the government… Thus, the official camouflage is maintained despite the large number of people who really know the truth. I admit I’ve never seen the craft at Norton with my own eyes, but enough reports passed across my desk during my years at Foreign Technology so that I knew what the secret was and how it was maintained. There were no conventional technological explanations for the way the Roswell craft’s propulsion system operated…” (Pg. 109)
He asserts, “the depleted-uranium-tipped warhead saw action in the Gulf War… They were one of the great weapons-development successes of Army R&D that came out of what we learned from the Roswell crash.” (Pg. 241)
In the Afterword, he says, “You can ask how the government was able to keep this secret for so long. Has there been any other cover-up so efficient and thorough that it went on, unbeknownst to succeeding presidents, year after year until it was finally stopped? Ini fact, there was just such a cover-up… code-named ‘Shamrock]… This program continued for the next twenty-eight years and kept secret from every president until it was terminated under the Ford administration in 1975.” (Pg. 298-299)
So would Corso have violated his oath of secrecy? (Of course, if this book was actually FICTION, there would be no violation.) Or was he just trying to provide a ‘nest egg’ for his family in time for the 50th anniversary of the Roswell incident? (He died a year after this book was published.) ‘Caveat emptor,’ if you buy this book.
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