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Summary: Terrible as fiction, Terrible as evidence
Review: I bought this book after hearing its praises sung on a local radio show (WBER, Rochester, NY). Though I've never been terribly interested in UFO phenomena, I am a sci-fi fan and thought that this book might shed some light and interest on a subject I've avoided over the years.Instead, The Day After Roswell illustrates the whole problem with UFO culture. The few UFO specials I have seen on TV succeeded in exciting me and opening me to the possibility of extraterrestrial invaders. Naturally, TV shows go light on the evidence in order that they not bog down the viewer. I can accept that, and I always assumed that there would be far more evidence presented if I ever actually dove into the subject. After hearing how this was the end-all and be-all of UFO evidence books, I was terribly disappointed at the amount of name-dropping and the scarcity of documentation. If government officials are hiding UFO information "in plain sight", as the author claims, I would hope to see documents referenced that I could look up myself. Instead, an illegible print of "Project Horizon" is included as a referential appendix. Is this supposed to back up everything for which we've taken the author at his word? Not to this discerning reader! My other problem with the book is probably more severe than the lack of evidence. It's badly written and _boring_. Corso (or his ghost writer) jumps back and forth between pandering melodrama and bone-dry technical illustration. Michael Chrichton can pull this off very well--Phil Corso cannot. These 300 pages were a bear to plow through, and at the end I kicked myself for not putting the book down when I saw its flaws (about 50 pages in, if that). If you're into UFOlogy and need an "accredited" source to affirm your choice in hobbies, go for it. It's an interesting concept. If you're an everage Joe hoping to glom onto the UFO craze, watch the X-Files. At least _that_'s entertainment.
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Summary: Finally --- Some Truth!!!!
Review: The late Col. Philip J. Corso outlines how extraterrestrial technology, secured from the site of the Roswell, New Mexico, crash of 1947, was literally spoon-fed almost insidiouly to U.S. industries at no cost over a carefully planned course of time. According to the book, many of the products and much of the technology we use today are a direct result of the reverse-engineering of materials found at the site of the crash. There has been some skepticism regarding Col. Corso's story, but consider the fact that he spends very little time in this book discussing the actual sequence of events stemming from the crash (although his account of the crash scene itself will leave the reader with vivid images of what happened). Instead, he focuses on the red tape and bureaucracy that he and his colleagues faced in the planning and transfer of information to industries. Not as fast-moving and/or action-packed as the title suggests, but generally very interesting. Col. Corso died suddenly and mysteriously of a second heart attack in 1998.
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Summary: IS THIS GUY ALIVE OR DEAD AFTER WRITTING THIS BOOK?
Review: UFO material is usually speculative at best and LT. Cor.Corso has eliminated this a typical UFO trap into a compelling account of the after effects of the Roswell crash. My opinion about the book statrted at the end, near page 262. He reflects on his contributions and involvement with the military's coverup and infusion of alien technologies in fortune 500 companies of the 50's. This might be fact or fiction, but the reality is- if this materail and what he has to write about is of such importance to the american goverment- one has to wonder if this guy is alive or dead? Any beats out there? Good book, boring at times, but I bought it , read it and would recommend it if you really are into learnign about UFO's. Thanks- Spencer
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Summary: disappointment
Review: I really could'nt wait to read this book. I was sure I would learn something new.nope. for someone in the "know" he sure is'nt saying anything new. I have read more informative information on the internet and heard more on art bell! this book is nothing but a big tease. I think he must of been planning on writing another book because he alludes to the fact he knows who the aliens are and what their agenda is but never says. this book gives you a tidbit here and there, but, the rest is nothing but space filler about things and events that have nothing to do with the book topic. I can't believe the other people giving this such a high score. it must be their first read on the subject or something.
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Summary: Is This The "Tell All Book" We Have been Wishing For?
Review: "THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL" Leads to the point: This work cuts through the nonsense -so that I find it either the most engrossing work of fiction of late; or the disturbing admission of that homegrown subterfuge we have dreaded, yet wanted to embrace in our secret moments of weakness and uncertainty. What was the real COLD WAR?..Why was it? Why has Technology increased by leaps of hundreds of years within the span of decades? Col.Philip J. Corso, this work of yours being true, (if in fact...) Let us know who leads our forces against the darkness. Respectfully submitted....Others...... READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Remarkable
Review: Colonel Corso's account of alien technology being implemented into mainstream technological R & D is remarkable. My grandmother always thought that a visit by aliens is how we've all this technology today. She wasn't far from the truth. The crash of legend in the New Mexico desert back in July of 1947 is where this starts. The Colonel gives brief, scattered accounts of the different cast of characters. They all substantiate each other solidly. Fast forward 14 years: the Colonel is second in command at Army R & D at the Pentagon. Working through his "nut file", he and his boss work covertly to introduce alien technologies recovered in that crash to an unsuspecting world. Nightvision, lasers, the silicon chip, particle beams, and kevlar can be attributed to visitors from another planet. Five stars. Put this one in your collection.
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Summary: You Can Fool Some Of The People All Of The Time
Review: Conspiracy, smearacy. This is pure, unadulterated, 100%, genuine, Grade A, U.S.D.A. Choice, prime, fresh off the barn floor horse hockey. Another book that proves anyone will believe it. I read this book hoping it might, once and for all disperse the fog and put to rest the rumor of alien life visiting earth. I'm embarrassed to have read this. The only green guys I know of play football in Green Bay, are in someone's entomology collection, or work for Green Peace, okay? Take my advice: stick with reality and donate the price of this book to your favorite social or medical charity. Go about your business people, there's nothing to see here.
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Summary: Spellbound!
Review: I bought this book for 'fun' reading for my Star Trek loving husband. I began to read it and WOW. I will never look at the sky the same again. To think, I was the biggest skeptic on the earth. I place those R&D engineers and what he is saying is true. I never dreamed it began in ROSWELL.
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Summary: Very fun to read, but I'm skeptical of motives...
Review: Fun to read. Talks about the Roswell crash, the spaceship, our ongoing visitations from aliens, abductions, cattle mutilations, CIA/KGB, cold war, Apollo missions, U2 missions, etc. Ultimately, however, I find that the author lacks credibility. "Spilling the beans" is entirely contradictory to LTC. Coroso's top-secret "need to know" military personality. By his own admission, Coroso was very skilled in counter-intelligence, misdirection, and deception. I think this book is counter-intelligence aimed at the American Public for one or all of the following purposes: 1) Strenghten support for defense spending 2) Foster a feeling of dependency on the military 3) Convince the American public that they should not question to closely where defense spending goes. 3) Create a new national enemy now that the Russions threat is minimized. I even question whether he wrote the book or whether it was a group effort by some military organization and he just put his name on it - as a last patriotic act. Other things I find suspicious in or about the book include: 1) The author accidentally saw an alien corpse ten years before he became involved in alien technology. What a coincidence. 2) There is no way the information, dates, places, documents in this book could have been compiled without government assistance. 3) Quite a work for an 82-year old man, 1 year away from a heart attack. 4) Given Coroso's description of how the government works, there is no way this book could have been published without the implicit concent of the government and military complex. 5. The aliens had incredibly advance technology including laser weapons, and had malevolent intent. Yet they limited their interference with our space program to buzzing flights and jamming signals. Why didn't they just blow up our satellites one by one as we put them in orbit? 6. Why would the aliens let us land on the moon if they had a base there? Anyway, fun to read, but I think it is a lot of strategic fiction interwoven with some fact.
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Summary: Who is Rosewood Woods Productions?
Review: I must agree that The Day After Rosewell had me going. It's a very readable story and almost believable. I'm not one to resist all arguements just because they may challenge my own view. I have been a skeptic on UFO's before reading this book, and I admit Col. Corso's account is better than a Steven King novel. I am suspicious though, of his book, which testifies to his seeing alien remains while they were enroute as shipment through the US Army, and that he worked to secretly deseminate recovered Alien Spaceship technology to American military contractors. Besides concluding that UFO's have been buzzing the earth, I ask myself what other reasons may have been at work to create this fun book. The several references in the book to Orson Welles' Holloween radio hoax in 1939(?) made we wonder if this was not a wink to readers, or perhaps an unconscious referance as to what the book is really up to, and what we are being treating to. One explanation that crossed my mind was that this may have been an old intellegence officer's last work for his country. The book may really be a work of 'dis-informatsia' (Russian word) - a technique of spy organizations used to throw off opponents, or send them down blind alleys hunting for tresures that are not there. Intelligence organs sometimes plant false news articles, stories or books for such a purpose. Another possiblity is that Corso may actually have written a book about his intellgence career and an account of his persceptive on the history he saw pass during his various assignments. Such a book is actually contained within The Day After Roswell. Perhaps when publishers showed no interest, some ingenious editor showed the way to literary fame and fortune. Corso's work may have then been rewritten to salt in the Roswell story, after paying Corso for his manuscript and the use of his name. Note that the copyright reads: "Rosewood Woods Productions" and not Philip J. Corso. Remember: "There is no such thing as corporate integrity." I'm sure one of these more reasonable explanations has some merit in understanding this work other than just taking The Day After Roswell at face value --- BUT WAIT, what's that BRIGHT LIGHT OUTSIDE MY WINDOW IN THE NIGHT SKY!
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