A look back at ‘The Day After Roswell’
A look back at and review of: Col. Philip J. Corso’s book, ‘The Day After Roswell’.
Recently, I had the chance to pick up and read a secondhand copy of one of the most famous or infamous Roswell crash books, ‘The Day After Roswell’.
It was originally published in 1997 in hardcover and was then published in paperback in 1998. The author of this intriguing exposé was Col. Philip J. Corso (Ret.), now deceased; he died about a month after the paperback was released. I’m not sure if this is the correct term for this particular case but it was co-authored by William J. Birnes (Publisher of UFO Magazine).
One of the reasons why this book was considered a big coupe in its day was the fact that Colonel Corso was the first military man to really let the cat out of the bag when it comes to what happened at Roswell, or rather what happened ‘after Roswell’. In fact, and off hand I don’t know for sure, but he may still hold that distinction. However, if one really wants to get technical, in ‘Witness to Roswell’ testimony from a few military types was included in that book. However, what I’m getting at was that a ‘military man’ actually wrote a book about what he knew about the affair regarding Roswell.
A bit of background information on Colonel Corso: During Col. Corso’s twenty-one year career, he was an Army intelligence officer who served as a member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and was the former head of the Foreign Technology Desk at the U.S. Army’s Research & Development department. After he retired in 1963 he served Senators James Eastland and Strom Thurmond, specializing in National Security. In the book he specifically considered Sen. Strom Thurmond and FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover as friends…
I mention those connections for a few reasons. One of those reasons is that you can tell a lot about the friends one keeps or the friends that a person considers their friends. It is highly unlikely that if Colonel Corso was alive today that I’d be in a rush to make his acquaintance and become his friend. However, I would be interested in questioning him further. Sadly, that won’t ever happen; which is too bad, because after reading his book, I have a lot of questions.
Although Corso wasn’t at the Roswell crash, he claims in his book that he spearheaded the Army’s reverse-engineering project that led to such things as integrated circuits, fiber optics, lasers, super-tenacity fibers, depleted-uranium invisible artillery shells, night vision equipment and more, all with the help of the alien artifacts from the Roswell crash that he was in stewardship of.
On the one hand this fits very nicely with my theory that this is exactly the type of thing that did happen, post Roswell crash. This is considering if indeed an alien UFO did crash. It depends on which day that I believe that theory. Sometimes, I believe that it’s a very good possibility that it was a U.S. Army test flight or experiment that went wrong.
To my mind Col. Corso comes off as sincere and the events or his participation comes off as fairly believable; exaggerated in a ‘war story’ kind of way but for the most part believable. I think it’s quite possible that things happened just the way he said they did but there’s little nagging doubts…
For me, this book still doesn’t conclusively prove that an alien UFO crashed at Roswell and that the alien technology has been doled out to various high tech projects and products as a result of it.
At the very least, ‘The Day After Roswell’ is a highly intriguing look at an event and its aftermath that continues to be as mysterious as it was in 1947.
