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Summary: Cover Up!
Review: Every American should read this book as it explains what many of us have wondered about for years! Extremely interesting! I couldn't put it down!
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Summary: Burn every book in the world, especially this one
Review: What good is any of this? I can understand now why people burn books, because all they do is mess with people's heads.
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Summary: The Day After Roswell
Review: If it's fact, this is the most fascinating book I've ever read. If it's fiction, this is the most fascinating book I've ever read.
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Summary: Corso's Explanation of the Cold War
Review: Reviewers have not mentioned Corso's claim that the stockpiling of huge quantities of nuclear weapons by the Americans and Russians during the Cold War was in fact intended to make it clear to the aliens that the Earth superpowers were willing to make the planet uninhabitable rather than yield to their incursions. Corso states that this scorched earth policy saved the earth from alien domination. True or false? Who knows? As other reviewers have said, the documentation that Corso provides does not directly relate to his various claims. However he does provide a possible explanation for the extraordinary quantity of weapons that were stockpiled. The book appears to be a (probably reluctantly) officially sanctioned 'limited hangout', fulfilling various possible functions. One function would be to reveal the truth to the general public in a deniable form, with nothing that was conclusive. The book also represents the American and Soviet governments in a favourable light, as secretly defending the population of Earth from being turned into, say, broilers for extraterrestrial consumption. Few of us would have seen our governments in such a favourable light, so in that sense Corso's book is a sort of governmental PR exercise, aimed at inducing the public to trust government at a time when it is being challenged for its encroachment on freedoms. As regards the claim that Corso's authorship of the book was the act of a renegade, it should be noted that he got it published by a mainstream publisher. That is not easy if there is not a measure of official acceptance.
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Summary: Holy Cow, what a sham!
Review: Corso knows nothing! All the government released documents indicate nothing that would lead one to believe that a UFO crashed at Roswell. There is no evidence in this book that one could examine to see if a UFO crashed at Roswell. THINK! Could the U.S. Government, with civilians who were present at Roswell, hide a UFO? Could the U.S. Government seal the lips of hundreds of people present at Roswell? NO WAY! Corso has nothing. This book is total hype with no evidence (hard fact).
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Summary: If it was the truth, it would not have been published.
Review: As the title of this review states, if this was whole truth behind the Roswell incident, the powers that be would not have let this book be published. I believe this book may contain kernels of truth scattered here & there but the potential to spread misinformation through a book such as this is enormous. I'm sure those truly in the know (no, I am not a mad conspiracy theorist!) are always glad when books such as this one are published as they help to further muddy the water and keep us ignorant of what's really happening in this world. An OK book but not the "truth", I think.
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Summary: Many historical inaccuracies
Review: In a nutshell, an army Colonel should know that the Soviets introduced the "Backfire" bomber in 1970, not 1957. I doubt Pope Pius would request an audience with a lowly army officer, and for the same reason his claims of working with postwar government in Italy are not entirely plausible. And if the cover-up has been succesfully hidden from U.S. presidents from Eisenhower on, how would Reagan have known about it when supposedly negotiating with Gorbachev for the SDI? Laser technology is not an alien invention, but has been around (in theory) since Tesla, read about him. Nor is night vision, in use since World War II by the Germans on sniper rifles. If the aliens had stealth technology, how were we able to pick them up on primitive 50's era radar? How were we able to shoot down a UFO capable of incredible speeds with a Vietnam era missile? How could we even have achieved a radar lock if they had stealth? If most of the moon has been mapped, probed, or seen from the Earth, where is the alien base? To what end does buzzing our spacecraft serve? Why have none of our space shuttle astronauts reported anything? Why are they interested in our technology if theirs is supposedly superior? If the aliens are mindless automotons, how can they so intelligently communicate their emotions? If they are automotons, who's pulling the strings? Does the story of an alien, crashed at Roswell, lying there for hours, gasping for air, and then suddenly getting up and running away from soldiers make sense to you? Why would the alien communicate its pain and suffering only to the observers (who later told the story, how convienient) and not to the actual MPs who were carting it away on a stretcher, which would make more sense? I don't discount the idea of aliens simply because I don't want to believe it but this book is definatly the result of Birnes' imagination coupled with a sprinkling of some of the events (non-alien) that happened in Corso's life. He dies a year later, and even his family says there are inaccuracies in this book. End result - very boring fiction.
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Summary: Hmm.. ... Ok, you can read it
Review: Ok, when I first put my eyes on it, I felt like reading to the end at once. But, in the middle, I got lot of (new) question marks. Its not that I'm too skeptic. On the contrary, I would like to belive the whole Rosewll incident - because I like it that way. But the things depicted in the book are either not solid enough or not written convincingly enough. Also I feel there are lot of beating-around-the-bush stuff. The Photos had been added - I might ask for what purpose? I feel, it could have been better without them. Quite new things, anyway. No harm reading.
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Summary: Roswell, my Review
Review: I just recently read the book "The Day After Roswell, written by Col. Philip J. Corso and I found this to be extraordinarily insightfulk and full of wonderful content. I enjoyed reading this book because I am interested in the whole deal with the Roswell Crash and I am also writing a paper for my Science class based on the incident which occured in Roswell, New Mexico July of 1947. This was a very interesting book and I hope that one day we will all know the truth. I give this book four stars out of a possible 5 stars.
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Summary: CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF
Review: I would recommend this book to people seriously investigating the UFO issue. Get this book and make your own decision. Investigate for yourself. I also recommend Gods of Eden by William Bramely.
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