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B**O
Fact or fiction
Either this man is telling the truth or he is blowing smoke up the readers arse. I grew up in the fifties and remember Sputnick being launched. I can relate to the various inventions as bullet proof vest, the tubes of television being replaced with with circuit boards, microwave ovens and the Dick Tracey watche that was at one time only true in the comics. I have a friend that has called me on his Dick Tracey watch. As a ham radio operator I have often heard some of the hams that have been licensed for 40 years talk about the old tube radios and many still have these radios. The tubes are hard to get and very expensive.I once talked to a pilot friend of mine that told me he was advised he did not see what he reported seeing unless he wanted to be a civilian. This went for anyone in the military.I have always felt that UFO's exist and am confident the author put it out there for all to see and know the truth. However, this can be put in the category of was there more than one shooter in the Kennedy assassination. Is the world ready for the truth or will there be another panic? I guess we will know the answer when a space ship lands on the lawn of the Whitehouse.
S**R
Must read
I have found this book only recently, although I was already well informed about UFO sightings and the Roswell crash. Yet, I decided to read the book and to write a review because as a scientist and an observer from the other side (during those years Corso is speaking about) I am able to evaluate the material from a different angle. First, the book provided additional info to what I already knew. Information not only about the incident itself but about harvesting the spacecraft debris and their reverse-engineering that resulted in the development of fiber optics, lasers, super-tenacity fibers, night vision, and integrated circuit chips (that opened a new era for computers) that tremendously advanced American industries, enabling, eventually, the Strategic Defense Initiative dubbed as “Star Wars.” Officially the latter was directed against the USSR but this was only a cover for a secret agenda against extraterrestrials.As Corso claimed, the weapons developed as a result of the Roswell harvest and of seeding spacecraft elements of technology into the American scientific institutions facilitated by the leading German scientists like Werner von Braun, Hans Kohler, and Hermann Oberth might allow to neutralize aliens’ attacks and, thereby, prevent colonization of the Earth.Although the use of the USSR as a cover for this agenda worked well, the resulting demonization of the country and its threat to the West caused hostility and split in the international community, though both “Americans and Soviets knew they weren’t going to launch a first strike . . ,” Colonel Corso wrote (p.292). Indeed, the number of warheads each side had, exceeded more than ten times the number needed to completely destroy all nuclear missile arsenal of the other side. What for? Colonel’s explanation seems reasonable: “capabilities to defend ourselves against extraterrestrials.” His interpretation of the end of the Cold War is also interesting. He did not say that the Soviet failed in this terrible war. He said that President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev eventually came to a meeting of the minds about UFOs . . .Gorbachev was also pleased because President Reagan guaranteed that the United States would throw their defensive shield around the Soviet Union, too (p.293).I was especially surprised to learn how the CIA hand in hand collaborated with the KGB, how the Air and Army forces competed for influence and funding, how the Pentagon kept the truth about the actual state of matter away not only from the American public but also from the American government. It is clear from the testimonies of the Colonel, who had ninth level security clearance, that the conflict between these structures and the government is to blame for President Kennedy’s assassination. Seems Colonel himself being the head of Foreign Technologies Desk at the U.S. Army’s Research and Development Dept. (he performed with excellence) retired from his job not following his own will.Although the technologies used for the propulsion of those alien spaceships are still under research and we may doubt whether anything like this existed at all, the “quantum leap” in the development of the new American technologies (literally overnight) could explain the puzzle how it could happen that instead of germanium and selenium diodes, scrupulously researched by such renown scientists as Bardeen and Shockley, suddenly appeared semiconducting wafers, made of silicon doped with arsenic that caused a revolution in transistors’ technology. The same is true about other technologies Corso is talking about.CONTRADICTIONS. I am sure there must be a number of contradictions simply based on the fact that Corso was talking about the national secrets. Here is one of those contradictions. According to Corso, lasers arrived straight from the site of the crash (plus from observations of UFOs). The other sources give us the date of the development of the first laser – 1958 and its first demonstration in 1960 that is in agreement with Corso’s claim. On the page 293, however, he wrote, “Once launched and tested, our space-based high energy laser acted like a lightning bolt on the nights of July 3 and 4 (1947) that so thoroughly disrupting the electromagnetic wave propagators in the spacecraft flying over Roswell that the pilots were not able to retain control over their vehicle (spacecraft).” A question arises: how could the military use anything they had no idea about at the time?Other contradictions and controversies became obvious after I watched presentations of Phil Corso Junior on youtube. It seems the son has his own story to tell. During the course of the book, Colonel spoke always about space travel, and he painted aliens having hostile intentions, for the sightings of UFOs were more often observed at the locations of the military bases. He also told us about mutilation of cattle and people abductions. Corso Junior, on the other hand, tells us a story about time travel and the Bermuda Triangle. He said our time is altered due to those technologies adopted from the Roswell spacecraft. And this technological jump can’t last forever. Besides, he claims that time travel nowadays is routine, at least for the military. Also, to prevent disasters that without Roswell technologies would hit us, the spacecraft (identical to the original) needs to be sent back in the future in a thirty-year frame. He is also talking about God, creation, even re-incarnation. Nothing like this did I find in the book. While the story told by Colonel Corso seems plausible at least within certain limitations, the story offered by his son fosters mistrust about the whole initiative.Incredible reading (occasionally confusing) accompanied with analysis of technological and political advances followed "the seeding" of Roswell's technologies and demonstrating military control over the government and society as a whole.
L**A
Good Read
This is a good read and thought provoking. However, it this were true, I don't think he would be alive
L**S
An eye opener to deeper understanding
After the congressional hearing in May 2022 when the stigma about UFOs (now called UAPs) was officially lifted, this book is a jewel of a read. Not only does it give you insights into how the government secrecy on the subject of UFOs and Alien Races evolved, you also understand why they made the choices they did. You don’t have to agree with their reasoning and justifications, but you do walk away with a deeper appreciation of the multi-layered chess match that was in play during the Cold War on Earth and in our skies.This book doesn’t break down the different Races behind different UAP technologies. In fact, it lumps all the different Races and possible agendas into one “them” category.But it DOES break down the different technologies developed as well as highlight the key players and departments within the US government and private industry, which is invaluable to forming a historic understanding from which you can be an informed member of the discussion in the best way to move forward.
P**S
Roswell a military contribution.
Wow - the contents of this book were mind blowing particularly with regard to the intelligence officer responsible for its production. Its existence should be more widely known, it names personnel, places, strategies,mechanism, technologies involved, companies and military officers. At times it was a little too technical for me but it was hard not to be impressed by the authority with which the author wrote and certainly if it is true he broke official secrets. I believe he died in 1998 and wanted the truth to be known. I don't know whether this is the truth or not but why should he lie? I found it very disturbing to say the least and at one point I had to take a break from reading it. It should be more widely read and people should be allowed to make up their own mind. Its disturbing!
D**C
Very interesting read highly regarded by ufologists
This book is basically a deathbed confession of Colonel Philip J. Corso, who was the US Army's point man for filtering technology recovered from the wreckage of the Roswell crash into US industry R&D, to utilise the technology for their own purposes. The co-author, William J. Burns, was his lawyer and probably more familiar to people as editor of UFO Magazine (in the US) and co-presenter of UFO Hunters on TV.The book is an exposé, and blows the lid off the UFO cover-up, or at least the US Army part of it, which started with the removal of the wreckage of the crashed craft in July 1947. One thing is clear from the book, that a number of military, intelligence and corporate agencies in the United States all have their fingers in the UFO/alien pie, but only a very select few in each of those organisations has access and knowledge. So, the cover-up is a multi-headed Hydra, operating in silos, all suspicious of each other, and vying for control over the technology.My approach to this book was not as a sceptic undecided about the Roswell incident, but as someone already convinced about UFO/alien reality and trying to put the pieces together that are true and filter out the bunk. The book is highly regarded by UFO researchers like Richard Dolan and Ross Coulthart. My main doubts are the questions about the aliens' motives, and here I think we are talking about the species known as greys, or Ebens, the owners of the Roswell spacecraft. Are they peaceful, as Dr Steven Greer believes, or are they a threat, as Colonel Corso clearly believed? I tend towards the view they have a complex agenda, not particularly concerned with our well-being, and may well be thoroughly deceptive.I think this is an important book, and part of the UFO/alien technology puzzle. I'll certainly never look at certain electronic components and fibre optics in quite the same way again.
A**R
Excellent
What sets this apart is that it puts Roswell into the context of WWII, the nascent cold war, and presents things from the perspective of a hardened military officer, dedicated to the security of his nation. Whether accurate or not, the tale of how the technology was fed into the mainstream is fascinating, and certainly plausible. Essentially, the tale boils down to: yes, we covered it up; yes, we believe we had good reason; and it's part of a much bigger picture. A compelling account.
M**D
This book is about the famous UFO crash at Roswell.
This book largely takes place around the time the so called Roswell event happened, although it has never been officially proven that it was a actual UFO crash that happened at that time. It goes into a lot of detail about what happened at the time it's like it's just one person's account of what happened there. It is fairly interesting in parts and goes off into different subjects after the Roswell event. This book is written by a top USA army man and has the help of an book editor along the way. In the book he says the government kept it all secret and they used the Alien technology recovered from the Roswell crash to use it in mainstream American stuff for consumers. He says a lot of things about the Roswell crash and how they killed these so called Alien creatures from the crash site itself. Later on in the book it goes into other stuff and only has a few chapters on the Roswell event. This was a interesting book to read with some good parts in it and stuff that was fairly average.
A**R
Do you believe politicians, or military?
To write an important account of a major UFO event as "faction" discredits the entire endeavor. How did he know what people said to each other when he wasn't there? And how can I believe a military officer when the military have been covering up everything for many years? The UFO community is all excited about this book; I don't trust this one at all. Truth, fiction, disinformation, all mixed together to confuse the issue. Researchers should pay more attention to the AZTEC crash, where they found numerous mutilated human bodies inside the craft. THAT IS THE IMPORTANT ONE! And it has been covered up.
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