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Summary: interesting read but flawed assertions put it all in doubt
Review: I found this book to be interesting reading with a plethora of detail. Some of the detail, however, seemed to be artificially added to "pad" what might be a less interesting and less wordy story on its own right. For example, the author purports that there was a "war" between the aliens and U.S. military, which we won by shooting down an alien craft in the 1970's. This seems kind of ludicrous given the superior technology the aliens have always possessed. If there had been a war, we would have lost it long before Roswell. "They" can do whatever they want with us, and we all know it. The author self-servingly indicates his office and their actions in seeding technology to industry, was responsible for winning the war with the aliens. Come on. This kind of thinking puts the entire book on questionable footing. However, it is an interesting book, full of personal accounts of meetings, interactions, and activities of some of the people who undoubtedly were involved in the kind of activities the author discusses. So for someone who is seriously interested in learning more about UFO's, the govt. secrets, etc., I think eventually this will be considered a "must read." I gave it 3 stars; I would have given it 3 and a half, despite my reservations, but the choice was either 3 or 4. I am glad I read this book.
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Summary: So So
Review: While intersting this book is a difficult read and requires more than one leap of faith if to be believed.
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Summary: Entertaining Fiction
Review: This book is facinating and riviting science fiction. Does Corso really expect us to believe in aliens from Outer Space? This might have made a good B movie. Some flaws in his thinking should make one realize the truth is not in this book. He makes statements that the alien technology is so advanced that we wouldn't stand a chance against invasion, yet he also states that we were going to put man on the moon to give the aliens something to think about before attacking us. If their technology is that advanced, whatever technology we reverse-engineered from the UFO would still NOT be any match for them. He also states that when he looked at the "wafers" from the ship he didn't know what they were, yet later in the book he says he knew when he saw them that they were printed circuit chips and what they meant for the future in microprocessors, something that hadn't been invented yet. This is a hard one to swallow, especially when he talks about a lot of the nuclear build up during the Cold War being for protection against alien invasion. Even the Russians were in on it cooperating with the US secretly! Finally, as always, we are led to believe that any alien visitation is hostile towards Earth. Most movies run along with this thinking. If there are any aliens visiting, wouldn't any of them "come in peace" instead of wanting to make us slaves or use us for experiments? I think Mr. Corso has seen to many B movies. Still, I give this book 5 stars for facinating reading and creative imagination.
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Summary: This is one of the most interesting I have ever read!
Review: Col. Philip J. Corso (Ret.) give us one of the most detailed and informative looks into what happened on the night in 1947, in the New Mexico Dessert. He give details, and names people that were involved in the cover-up. This book tells us where Intergrated circut chips, fiber optics, lasers, and more all came from. It also tells that the government has been lying to us for over 50 years, because they are afraid of how we (the public) would react to the idea that we have been visited by creatures from another world. I strongly suggest that everyone who believes that ALIENS AND UFO's do exist read this book.
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Summary: Fantasy and Lies
Review: After buying a book, it goes into my library. This is one book that did not make the grade. It went into the trash. The gall of this author to credit alien science, rather than the ingenuity and hard work of government and industrial scientists and engineers, for certain advancements in electronics and physics, made me very angry. I had been involved as an observer during the development of most of what Corso credited to alien science. Touted as non-fiction, my description of this book is that it is a pile of words, demented fantasy, and deliberate lies.
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Summary: Supposidly factual statements are totally inaccurate.
Review: I only read as far as page 4, paragraph 2, where Corso made the following statement: "Today, items such as lasers, integrated circuitry, fiber optics networks, accelerated particle beam devices and even the Kelvar 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."I know nothing about Corso's files, but I do know something about particle beam accelerators and lasers. The first cyclotrons (particle beam accelerator) were built in the '30s. Stimulated emission, which is the underlying process for laser action, was first proposed by Albert Einstein in 1917. Personal communication with Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit (for Texas Instruments) yielded his comment was that there was no truth in Corso's statements. I cannot account for a man of Corso's credentials writing such a book. But occasionally great scientists go off on tangents and write bizarre articles. Andrew Ivy and Linus Pauling are two cases in point.
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Summary: Fiber optics = 10 , Solid state data conductance = 0
Review: Fiber optics will be around forever. Most physicists should agree on this. Nobody has been able to think up anything faster than energy in the form of light. The only other method I can come up with is bending space inside out. But this is still limited to the amount of data your system can send and receive. A fiber optic cable of the future will have no limit (except the speed of light and any space a modulated photon occupies). It is likely that alien technolgy would include fiberoptic cables. Corso might know something. But he hasn't said what it is in his book.
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Summary: Too many fairy tales- No real facts
Review: This book is full of interesting items for the true UFO believers. But how can anyone take seriously the claims that all or most of our great scientific achievements were the result of reverse engineering of UFO technologies. Lets get real here. Consider the following facts: We live about 30,000 light years from the heart of our galaxy. So, an explorer from the heart of the Milkway would be about 30K earth years old upon arrival. If they could travel at the speed of light. NOT One cannot travel faster than the speed of light. So, it would take about +1000 years for a life form from within our spiral arm of our galaxy to get here. And more than +30000 years from the center of our galaxy. The author is correct that we had a hidden agenda about going to the moon. We did not go there to be first and best. We went there due to the military implications we thought the moon had in the 1960s. The project allowed us to build big rockets to put big payloads in space. Getting to the moon got us some prestige and BIG ROCKETS to launch many nuclear weapons from one platform. Our military concerns were not aliens but Soviets. Kind of sad why we went to the moon either way. This concept of an alien threat is so crazy. It and the concern over it have never come to fruition. Its been over 30 year since we made the mad dash to the moon to save our planet. We never made the bases and the aliens never attacked. Whats up with that? Guess they lost interest in us. The author offers lots of his own experiences or dreams thereof, but no hard facts or physical evidence. Proof of aliens requires hard evidence. Lack of evidence is not proof. This is an Alice in Wonderland book. Great for UFO nuts who will believe anything. Bad for those who have a tendency to think too much.
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Summary: Col. Corso is a credible ex-military counter intelligence of
Review: In his book, Col. Corso gives an interesting account of our government's possible involvement with UFO's, particularly with regard to the alleged Roswell incident. He relates his 1960's Pentagon assignment to "seed" industry with items found at the crash site, and the resulting development of various technologies including micro circuitry, night vision goggles, surgical and weapons grade lasers, fiber optics, etc. Col Corso offers tantalizing information suggesting that with this alien technology SDI was developed and deployed long ago as a defense against intrusions into our air space by extra terrestrials (as well as to deter the Soviets) and the purpose of our moon missions was to establish a defensive military presence on the moon. He does not tell us whether these things actually happened. He suggests these events occurred over 30 years ago, and this makes me wonder what else could have been happening in the interim? The book is extremely interesting but I am left wondering whether it could be an experienced counter intelligence officer's (Col. Corso) attempt to gived new life to the Roswell myth for the same unknown reasons the original storey was told.
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Summary: Show me PROOF! Long on story, short on science.
Review: Just what millions of us wanted to hear, want to believe. But true? If you were base C.O. and your people found alien bodies, would you ship them by truck; leave them UNGUARDED overnight? Set yourself up for a court martial? "Spent uranium is, I believe, the 99.5% of the uranium which remains after the U 235 is separated. The "spent" fuel rods are much too radioactive to process. How did Col. Corso know that the "chips" he saw were silicon? He never mentioned having them analyzed. (Our transistors at the time were all germanium.) I personally followed the development of the transistor and integrated circuit by reading the weekly newpaper, Electronic News for 10 years. Progress was NEVER a big jump, but painfully slow steps. Like 4 photo diodes on one substrate (later called chip). Then 8. Then 16,64, 128, and an unbelievable 256. Transistor developed painfully slowly from WW II efforts to make more pure and effective diodes. Finally so pure, they didn't work at all. Then knowledgeable doping experiments could be run. SO MANY problems came from using a co-author, instead of doing work himself. So many obvious cases of hyping it up so it'd sell. Unscientific claims, like a single spider web strand elongating to 50 miles. BIGGEST ITEM BY FAR: Cross infiltration of CIA and KGB, with common agenda of a one-world socialist govt. When will the American public wake up to the fact that all secret information is secret ONLY from the American public, and for political reasons? And serves ONLY to slow down progress (the whole public is smarter and has lots more ideas than the whole Army, Navy, USAF, CIA, DIA, FBI, etc. etc. combined)
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