The Day After Roswell: A Former Pentagon Official Reveals the U.S. Government's Shocking UFO Cover-up [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

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.

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!

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.