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Summary: Credibility of the man most important
Review: Lt. Colonel Corso's history has been verified. He was in the pentagon's foreign technology division and he was a military liason to the Eisenhower white house administration. A man of his stature and military experience would simply not be prone to making up stories. Anyone who has experience with the honor and integrity someone who has risen to the rank of Lt. Colonel has to take a second look at this book. Why would such a man write this book, especially at the end of his life and only two years before he died? For the money? Did he go crazy at the end of his life? While these are possible explanations, they don't seem plausible in the Lt. Colonel's case. Critics complain that there is no documentation. Of course there aren't! Taking home top secret documents is definitely frowned upon. Can his story be proven then? No. But the real compelling factor to the story is the man. To me, it is simply not plausible that such a man would make up stories. Maybe he wanted to die with a clear conscience? I don't know, but the high degree of credibility of the author certainly made me take a closer look at his book.
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Summary: Truth, Fiction and Lapses of Memory
Review: I have been a follower of the Roswell Crash for many years. There are excellent books that have been written about the subject. I was excited to find a book that would allow me to follow the "rest of the story" through the eyes of someone who was in the know. I was very disappointed to find, what I feel to be, some truth, some fiction and lapses of memory from Corso. The other disappointment came when I read the reviews at this website. If this book is the greatest book ever written to convince people of the existence and coverup of a crash st Roswell, then I urge all of you who think this to expand your horizons.
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Summary: Absolutely The Best
Review: I've read literally hundreds of books and articles on UFO's - which I find to be a very serious subject. Unfortunately there are too many "questionable" sources contributing to the subject and many times it makes a mockery of serious contributers. In "The Day After Roswell" Colonel Philip J. Corso provides what I feel is the most detailed, reliable and completely objective account of history's most debated UFO incedent. Colonel Corso is one of a kind - in the right position at the right time to have first hand knowledge of many interesting details, a man of unquestionable integrity dedicated to serving the American people and exposing this incident for what it really is, and a true master of seperating fact from speculation. The truth is completely exposed in this book, more completely than I've ever seen. Everything from what actually happened in the deserts of New Mexico to the political and military scramble to not only cover it up but also to prepare a defense against it. Colonel Corso, I salute you - it takes a man of exceptional courage to jeapordize such an outstanding military career to do what's right.
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Summary: A Question of Credibility vs Belief
Review: Perhaps the most difficult challenge for any individual in this day and age is challenging their own belief systems and paradigms. This is best addressed by considering the process by which we come to believe the things we do. There exist many people who, no matter what evidence they are provided with, are incapable of changing their stance. These 'sheeple', as I prefer to call them, are deeply ensconced in a myopic view of reality that has been spoon-fed to them through mass media, religious dogma, and the Cartesian model for scientific reasoning, to name a few. It is my contention that these bastions of belief are responsible, albiet subtle, for every review of this book that cannot accept the credible nature of Philip J. Corso's disclosures. The Day After Roswell provides a level of detail and credibility that is virtually unimpeachable except by those aforementioned individuals who could not believe the story even if a landing took place on the White House lawn in full daylight. As far as undermining Corso's credibility because of financial gain, rarely are 'first books' money makers, and even if this book did make him 'set for life', that doesn't really mean much considering his age. Additionally, stories such as this would not likely appear on television by virtue of the fact that, if there is indeed a government cover-up, it must be taken into consideration that the mass media is governed by its sanctioning body, the FCC -- a government agency. The Day After Roswell is informative, credible, and plausible, serving not only to shed light on what's really going on, but in view of the negative responses it has recieved, also illustrates the effectiveness of the virtual brainwashing that has closed the minds of so many individuals. This book is a must read unless you are so deeply ensconced in the fantasy that we, as a species, are alone and could not possibly have been visited by a technologically superior species whose emergence greatly precedes our own.
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Summary: Then what . . . now we know
Review: THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL is the first 'UFO book' I've ever bothered to read. I guess I'd never really looked upon the whole 'UFO thing' as being all that book-worthy. Granted, I've always seen the subject as an interesting one. Let's face it, thousands of sane, credible people have seen things in the skies that were more than 'probably just Venus', but with the very nature of a UFO being 'unidentified', any book on the subject would have to bring a uniquely informed writer to the table to keep it from being just another speculative exercise on a highly speculative subject. Which brings us to the author, Col. Philip J. Corso. Say what you want about the subject matter of the book, or the tale the good Col. is telling, at least in Col. Corso, the story is coming from a qualified source. A person who would have known. So what exactly is the story? Well, it isn't the 'UFO agenda' smoking gun the title had me expecting. In fact, it isn't at all what I expected. Whereas I thought the book might be about actual 'EBE's'(extraterrestrial biological entities), where they may have come from or what they might be doing here, the book hardly touches on any of that. What it does touch on is how Col. Corso, from his post within the Army's Research & Development program in the early 1960's, went about farming out bits and pieces of technology from a crashed spacecraft found near Roswell in 1947, into ongoing Defense Department development programs. As he tells his story, it was put upon him not only to think up different weapons applications for each little piece of crash wreckage he had at his disposal, but to also put them in the hands of the right contractor, working on the right projects, while at the same time not letting anyone know where the technology was coming from. Nor could he let any of the competing branches of the military know what he was up to. And it's here, on this level, as the tale of a mild mannered military bureaucrat working against the tense, cloak and dagger backdrop of the cold war, that THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL ultimately worked for me. Basically the story of an ordinary man put into an extraordinary situation. I did have trouble with a number of things in the book. Like the chance meeting Corso had with his own destiny back at Fort Riley, or the lack of action taken on the 'nut file' by his predecessors at R & D in the 13 years prior to his arrival. And I must say, his account of his involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis left me feeling like I was watching a Commander McBragg cartoon, yet none of these little problem points really affected the core point of the book. On the overall, I still came away from it with the feeling of. . . . . oh, I don't know . . . . . let's just call it - plausible plausibility. And for a story as way out there as this one, that's not too bad. Is it the truth? Who knows. But one thing is for sure, something strange did crash outside of Roswell New Mexico in 1947, and it sure as hell wasn't a weather balloon.
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Summary: How gullible can people be?
Review: This is without a doubt the stupidest book I've read in the past two years. Pseudoscience can be fun in modest doses, but this doesn't even qualify as entertainment. The basic claim is that the major technological developments of the past 50 years, particularly in microchips, lasers, and fiber optics, are a consequence of reverse engineering an alien spaceship that crashed at Roswell. This claim is insulting to the real engineers and scientists who actually did the work, and didn't need any cheat sheets from bug eyed grays, thank you. The first transistor was developed at Bell Labs at just about the time of the Roswell incident, well before there could have been any time for "alien technology transfer". And it was based upon physical principles that had been discovered in the first few decades of this century. The subsequent development of complete semiconductor circuits on a chip was an inevitable and natural consequence of this early crude invention -- it can be explained fully by the combination of competitive capitalism and some initial seed money from the space program. Likewise lasers and fiber optics have a technological evolutionary history that follows naturally from discoveries in physics early in this century, no miraculous intervention by the space brothers is needed. Note that the one truly unfathomable property of the alleged UFOs is the one that *hasn't* been reversed engineered and inserted into our technological infrastructure -- a silent propulsion system that uses no jets, propellers, or rockets. If tomorrow the Air Force were to announce a new airplane that works by anti-gravity, I might be willing to give some credence to Corso's book. But when the best he can do is point to technology based on principles fully understandable by a 1930s physicist, Occam's razor requires that we toss his claims into the wastebasket.
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Summary: A Deep, Dark Secret the Goverment has to Deny.
Review: This book is a compelling read that sheds light on how our technology-curve was somewhat skewed by the covert introduction of alien technology. The systematic way that it was introduced, and the care that was taken to make sure that foreign adversaries were not aware of the Roswell artifacts, evolved into a situation in which the government even to this day has to deny the truth about the Roswell incident. An interesting thing to me is that Colonel Corso implies the aliens are not necessarily friendly. When you think about it ... during the 1980s when President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative was a hot issue, I remember the President justifying SDI by saying it is much needed in order to defend against our enemies here on earth and from elsewhere. It's the 'from elsewhere' part that is very significant. I think parts of goverments and militaries throughout the world are aware there are aliens among us. This is a good book that puts into historical perspective why our government has kept and will continue to keep the truth about the Roswell incident secret.
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Summary: Provides interesting insight, but lacks strong evidence
Review: The strongest point to this book is the detail with which Corso describes his anecdotes. But as anyone can tell you, detail does not necessarily mean the truth. The only choices therefore are: 1) He's telling the truth; 2) He's telling the truth mixed with fiction; 3) He's lying thru his teeth and laughing all the way to the bank. You have to ask yourself, what are the chances of it being the first choice? As it turns out, the detail provides for an interesting and entertaining read. No matter what what you believe, I think you'll find this book worth reading--if you like this kind of stuff. As for me, I just keep an open mind until I have definitive and corroborating evidence--just because I say I saw a UFO doesn't mean I saw one.
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Summary: Finally the truth
Review: The truth, finally, is so refreshing. And obvious. Every fact I can check about this book - checks. Now what do we Earthlings do?
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Summary: Interesting, but needs more documentation
Review: One has to ask: What would motivate Col. Corso to write such a book? Military reputations, earned over many years, are not often willingly trashed by those who work hard to obtain them. His is an astonishing claim, that the Research and Development desk at the Pentagon"seeded" private industry with UFO technology from the Roswell crash. The book lacks the final documentation to push it over the top to make it completely convincing. Perhaps more than anything Corso's book reminds us that that the public needs to continue to press their government for full disclosure through the Freedom of Information Act. From reading Corso's book I get the impression that a well-placed Woodward & Bernstein on the Pentagon beat could have blown the whole cover-up wide open. The public needs more documentation. And, if there really was a flying spaceship recovered in 1947, then perhaps there eventually will come a day when our government has its "show & tell" day. With people pressing their officials for documentation, perhaps that day will come sooner. (Assuming that there is anything to "show".) The book is worth reading.
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