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Summary: Is it possible to know the truth?
Review: If this book does not stir your emotions, then you are more alien than those believed to have crashed in Roswell. By the time this book was published, nearly 50 years of fact and fiction had accumulated. At over 80 years of age, the author published the book more than 35 years after his involvement in the incident. While most of us struggle to remember what we did yesterday, it is admirable that Col. Corso (Ret.) remembered what he said, thought, and ate on particular days that long ago - especially since he was so careful not to leave a paper trail. Do I question the honor and integrity of a distinguished military officer who served our country with such devotion? No, but I also know that deception and disinformation is a doctrinally accepted military operation. While acts of deception are not legally permitted on domestic soil, we would be naive to think that it doesn't happen, especially when the author and his superior repeatedly relied on hidden agendas to accomplish their mission.This book does depict the military climate. Diversified agencies with different agendas driven by a 'staff officer' in position for a couple of years with no guaranteed continuity between programs. An officer who often fails to give credit to the work, insights, and diligence of others. While Mr. Corso subtly criticizes the civilian sector for taking 10 years to get a man on the moon, isn't it ironic that it took the Army 14 years to begin the systematic transfer of knowledge to the defense community. I was surprised to see a former member of the military admit the recovery of bodies and spacecraft. Not being a dedicated UFOer, I must have missed the point at which this information was declassified. With all the threats to those knowledgeable of the incident and people being permanently incognito afterward, it is surprising to see such open disclosure by Mr. Corso. Just what was the motive and consequences? The real disappointment is that the military, who Mr. Corso was a part of for so many years, has failed to officially reveal information on the artifacts, while acts of concealment and camouflage continue. It certainly is not the military's role to decide what the public is ready to believe and accept; and I don't buy the national security argument for camouflaging all of the truth. This book should be required reading in a class like philosophy or critical thinking. It addresses the type of emotional topic that challenges our ability to think critically. And thinking critically is all we can do now since too much time has passed to know the real truth about Roswell.
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Summary: disappointed
Review: Make that very disappointed. The author's version of Roswell events is contradictory and inaccurate. He states that much modern technology (lasers, stealth, particle beams, integrated circuits, night-vision) was pirated from a crashed alien vehicle. If the spaceship had stealth technology, why did it light up radar screens for days prior to the crash? If these advanced beings wanted to gather intel on our nuclear and rocket sites in Nevada, why did they do so with low level flight as opposed to orbital listening (as we less advanced humans do)? If the ship crashed at thousands of miles per hour and was largely undammaged, why did it expell its crew? Supposedly, the MPs shot one alien with M1 rifles, but the M1 doesn't fire in the way described in this book (I know). Supposedly top security was imposed, with threats by MPs to the little girl of a plumber at the air base (I don't believe it), but the base commander authorized a press release about a flying disc. Supposedly, the technology remained under wraps, slowly released through secret deals with security-cleared private companies. Not true!! The first laser was demonstrated at Columbia University in 60. The integrated circuit appeared at Texas Instruments in 58. As for the aliens themselves, as a physician I can say their described storage and autopsies don't remotely reflect medical knowledge or procedures. For example, lungs don't store air like a camel's hump stores water. They bring inhaled gasses air into contact with special membranes and capillaries so exchange can occur. Corso's being "has combined lymphatics and circulation". That would be like running sewage and drinking water through the same pipes. The simplest injury would lead to sepsis. Corso claims to have seen the aliens decomposing in fluid in crates days after their high security transport but before their autopsy. Hello! Autopsy subjects are kept refrigerated, not slipped directly into formaldehyde. Corso sees them when he sneaks into the storage site after all of the armed men who made the delivery and did the threatening have left the crates virtually unguarded. Yeah right. I don't know what really happened at Roswell. Neither do the authors of this book.
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Summary: I have a problem with this book ...
Review: I am a mathematician and worked at Bell labs for many years (mid 70s to 2000). I believe the Roswell incident did take place and has been covered up by out government. I also believe that it is plausible for a government agency to have farmed out technology from the crash, to industry, to be developed into usable products. However, I do not believe Corso's account... Corso's description of how 'alien chips' were reversed engineered into integrated ciruity is not believable. Come on folks - with the speed at which computer technology is evolving today a 'circuit' of 100 years from now will probably not be based on silicon, will more than likely utilize light to carry information instead of electricity, and will more than likely not be 'etched' as today's circuity is. Assuming the Roswell alien's are more than 100 years in advance of where we are today we are looking at what - Quantum computers based on organic molecules or maybe a technology which we can't even imagine today? Just my $.02.
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Summary: A bit slow but interesting
Review: The late Philip Corso tells the story of how he came into possession of top secret files and alien artifacts from the crash at Roswell in 1947. He was told by his commanding officer to "see what you can do" with the alien technology. He goes on to say how he set it up so that the technology would be fed to the public little by little so the public wouldn't suspect anything amiss. According to him this is where most of our modern technology came from including the transistor radio. Interesting book but slow paced.
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Summary: Self-laudatory tosh
Review: The biggest mystery about this book, even bigger than the supposed existence of a hostile alien race that may or may not have lost a spaceship outside of Roswell in '47, is why Philip Corso's mantlepiece is not currently groaning under the weight of Nobel Prizes for physics ? For, if this book is accurate, then Philip Corso and Philip Corso alone is responsible for the ideas in many diverse fields that led to the development of many new technologies. Because, in the author's own humble words iterated several timwes throughout - "I realised that perhaps what this was for was (fill in - Starlight Optics, Lasers for medical and military and range-finding use, Particle-Beam weapons etc etc etc)". Single-handedly Corso discovered what alien technologies did and also thought of the ways to exploit them ! This must be deeply distressing news for the hardworking scientists who really developed all this stuff. However, as Corso explains, they were in on the secret as he fed them info and let them hold any patents fof the new stuff. So that explains that. Humble guy. This might have been believable has Corso gotten his scientific facts right, but facts, like concrete evidence, are thin on the ground in this flight of fancy. The effects of microwaves for instance were, depending on which side of the Atlantic you happen to be on, discovered by either RAF radar technicians who found cooked sparrows by radar stations in 1941 or by Doctor Spencer of Raytheon in 1946 who noticed that a candy bar in his pocket had melted when working with radar. (The former is more believable for more than the obvious patriotic reasons for one wonders why no other part of Doctor Spencer was affected by the microwaves). In any event, neither of these histories of microwave discovery appear in Corso's work and so it goes through the other fields. The works laying the foundation of fibre-optics appeared in 1951, some ten years before Corso's "brainwave" when pondering the Roswell find. Admittedly, the first concrete proposals for the application of fibre-optics were put forth in 66, but the point remains, the idea for them was hard graft by scientists ten years earlier. What's more Dutch and English scientists lest people object they were given their ideas by the US military. And on it goes, example after example of how this technology really came about from previous research predating the Roswell crash can be put forth to utterly refute Corso's claim. For we only have Corso's word that his is indeed the case. Corso gives us no evidence of his story. All the photographs are of him or are plucked from other UFO sources. The appendix "official" documents are largely unsigned. The schematics therein able to have been produced by any Star-Trek buff, not any competent scientist. Conveniently, Corso's superior is dead and thus can't refute any of Corso's astounding claims. Not that really they need refuting. If you are unable to refute this yourself after 10 minutes on a good search engine, then there's a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you. Gets two stars for being entertainingly written.
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Summary: Spectacular, to say the least
Review: Non-stop page turner, I read it in no time flat, pressed everyone I know to read it also. Corso gave us more than we will ever know.
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Summary: THE BOOK
Review: Unreal, spell bounding!!! I could not believe what I was reading. I have had an interest in such topics, I was waiting for such a writing for awhile. Did not think someone would have the intestional fortitude. The books does not present itself in what if's, could there be, etc. BUT in actual fact as to what ocurred in 1947 and future events. We have learned little but gained some knowledge. Read the book and determine the difference yourself. The facts--- most believable!!!, conerning the space craft and its contents. The large number of people, and their association with the incident mentioned ,adds credibility to the story line. A MUST READ,
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Summary: This guy is delusional at best !
Review: Anyone who is even relatively educated in science and technology, knows the evolution of disciplines that led to all the inventions that Corso claims came from flying saucers. Hard work and intelligent innovation ( by humans ) led to these inventions. I'm hoping Corso is just delusional, because if he isn't, then he's a blatent liar ! Don't waste your time with this supposed book.
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Summary: WRITTEN LIKE A PRO.....
Review: If You Ever Wondered what happened in Roswell, this book will take you there. Filled with facts and stories that will leave you a little unsettled.
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Summary: A must read for all believers...
Review: This book is by far one of the best reads of this genre. It makes so much sense and is explained very well. If you are a fan of Stanton Friedman then you will love this book.
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