The day after Roswell
By: Philip J. Corso with William J. Birnes.
Contributors: Birnes, William J.
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780671004613
Subjects: Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell; Defense information, Classified -- United States; Official secrets -- United States; Roswell (N.M.) -- History; 509th Army Air Field (N.M.)
Description: A landmark expose firmly grounded in fact, The Day After Roswell puts a fifty-year-old controversy to rest. Since 1947, the mysterious crash of an unidentified aircraft at Roswell, New Mexico, has fueled a firestorm of speculation and controversy with no conclusive evidence of its extraterrestrial origin -- until now. Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret.), a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and former head of the Foreign Technology Desk at the U.S. Army's Research & Development department, has come forward to tell the whole explosive story. Backed by documents newly declassified through the Freedom of Information Act, Colonel Corso reveals for the first time his personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the crash, and discloses the U.S. government's astonishing role in the Roswell incident: what was found, the cover-up, and how these alien artifacts changed the course of twentieth-century history. - Jacket flap.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Roswell Desert; title: Convoy to Fort Riley; title: The Roswell artifacts; title: Inside the Pentagon at the Foreign Technology Desk; title: The cover-up; title: The strategy; title: The EBE; title: The project gets under way; title: Hostile intentions and the other Cold War; title: The U2 program and Project Corona : spies in space; title: Project Moon Base; title: The integrated circuit chip : from the Roswell crash site to Silicon Valley; title: The laser; title: The Antimissile Missile Project; title: My last year in R&D : the Hoover files, fiber optics, supertenacity, and other artifacts; title: "Tesla's death ray" and the accelerated particle-beam weapon; title: Star Wars; title: Afterword; title: Appendixes. Project Horizon; title: General Twining's memo; title: General Twining's report