Book · 1997
The Day After Roswell
Col. Philip J. Corso with William J. Birnes · foreword by Sen. Strom Thurmond (later disavowed) · Pocket Books · ISBN 978-0-671-00461-3
Glimpses
had a great deal of expertise not only as a military officer but also in the fields of intelligence and national security.
Corso's service is real: he was an Army intelligence officer, served on Eisenhower's National Security Council staff and was briefly deputy chief of Army Foreign Technology. His Roswell claims, however, are uncorroborated by any record, and the senator who wrote the foreword disavowed them. The book belongs here as an influential, disputed first-person claim, not as evidence.
Government Executive reported in June 1997 that Thurmond had written the foreword believing the book was an autobiography, praising Corso's "great deal of expertise" in intelligence and national security, and then withdrew it: "I know of no such 'cover-up' and do not believe one existed."
Sources: Wikipedia; Google Books. · Government Executive (1997)
Facts and claims
- claimed A memoir credited to retired Army Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso and ghostwritten by William J. Birnes, published by Pocket Books in 1997. It claims the U.S. recovered an alien craft at Roswell in 1947 and seeded its technology into American industry through the Army's Foreign Technology Division, where Corso had briefly been deputy chief. — Philip J. Corso Source: en.wikipedia.org (archived)
- claimed Corso also claimed he saw an extraterrestrial body in a shipping crate at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1947. — Philip J. Corso Source: en.wikipedia.org (archived)
- claimed Senator Strom Thurmond, Corso's former employer, wrote the foreword. On learning what the book contained, he said: “I know of no such ‘cover-up,’ and do not believe one existed.” Source: en.wikipedia.org (archived)
- claimed It spent three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Reviews were sceptical, and The Guardian included it in a 2001 list of the “Top 10 literary hoaxes”. Source: en.wikipedia.org (archived)
Connected files
People
- Philip J. Corso (authored by)
Incidents
- Roswell crash (about)
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- Citizen Hearing 2013: Closing Remarks (discussed in)
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