Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Corso, 'The Day After Roswell'
Memoir credited to retired Army officer Philip Corso, ghostwritten by William Birnes, claiming he seeded alien technology from Roswell into US industry.
1997 CE · 33.39, -104.52 · status: claim
The account
For: Corso was a real Army intelligence officer who served on the Eisenhower National Security Council staff and in Army research and development, giving the book the weight of an insider. It claimed fibre optics, integrated circuits and night vision came from the wreck.
The sceptical view
Against: analysts found many errors about known facts and chronologically impossible events; the technologies he named have documented human histories. Senator Strom Thurmond, who wrote a foreword, asked for it to be removed.
Connections in the atlas
- The Day After Roswell
- Roswell incident