Colonel Philip J. Corso, a high-level military figure is about to tell all he knows about the famed 1947 Roswell incident, and that could be a lot. Colonel Corso reportedly served on President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and also headed the Foreign Technology Desk at the U.S. Army’s Research and Development Department. The publishers description of Corso’s book, The Day After Roswell, (co-written with William J. Birnes)says: "Since 1947, the mysterious crash of an unidentified aircraft in Roswell, New Mexico, has fueled a firestorm of speculation and controversy about whether the craft actually was of another world.

"Backed by newly declassified documents, Colonel Corso (ret.) reveals his personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the crash, how these items changed the course of twentieth century history, and the U.S. government’s astonishing role in covering up the incident. Laying bare some of the government’s most closely guarded secrets, The Day After Roswell forces us to reconsider our past, as well as our role in the universe.

Colonel Corso was a key Army intelligence officer on President Eisenhower’s White House staff. During his 21-year military career, Corso was honored with 19 medals, decorations and ribbons for meritorious service. He was retired from the Army in 1965.

According to Corso, Jesse Marcel, the central figure in the Roswell legend, helped recover the crashed UFO and its alien occupants.

What makes this explanation unusual is that Marcel was the first person to go public with a Roswell story in the late 1970s. And before his death in 1986, Marcel never mentioned having actually seen a spacecraft or aliens—just that he’d found pieces of material he didn’t think had been made on Earth. Corso does claim, however, to have been on duty at Fort Riley, Kan., July 6, 1947, when a convoy bound for Wright Field in Ohio stopped for the night.

Persuaded by a subordinate to take a peek into one of the crates the convoy was transporting "from some accident out in New Mexico," Corso says he was horrified to find a body. He didn’t discover the remains of a man or a woman, though.

It was "a four-foot human-shaped figure with arms, bizarre-looking four-fingered hands—I didn’t see a thumb—thin legs and feet, and an oversized incandescent lightbulb-shaped head that looked like it was floating over a balloon gondola for a chin."

Having seen this, Corso didn’t seem particularly surprised 14 years later when he was made head of Foreign Technology at Army Research and Development in the Pentagon and given control of a file cabinet allegedly containing pieces of debris from the Roswell wreckage.

Why were alien artifacts stuck in a file cabinet in Washington, D.C.? Corso explains that while most of the wreckage from Roswell was hauled to Wright Field, a small supply had been sent to the Pentagon. Unsure how to proceed in examining it, the material’s original guardians had filed it away—literally—for future reference.
Corso says his boss, Gen. Arthur Trudeau, was frustrated that the Air Force apparently was studying only the flight characteristics of its part of the Roswell wreckage and ignoring the broader implications. The general, he said, thought the material should be utilized to assist American defense contractors.

"I need you to tell me you found a way to make something out of this mess," Corso quotes Trudeau as saying. "There must be some piece of technology in your file that’ll make a weapon. ... We have to do something because nobody else will."

Corso says he then spent the next two years carefully feeding the technology contained in his Roswell file to military contractors that were attempting to develop a variety of items. He carried out his activities in secret, he says, because he felt the CIA would immediately leak information to the Soviet Union’s KGB agents.

Through his work, Corso claims, Americans now are able to do such things as see through night-vision devices, find their way with laser tracking equipment, feel secure while wearing Kevlar bulletproof vests, cruise the information superhighway thanks to their computers’ integrated circuit chips and live in a world made safer for democracy due to the fall of the Soviet empire.
More important, according to Corso, is that the aliens whose ship crashed near Roswell are aware that America now possesses weaponry sophisticated enough to blow their vessels out of the sky if they attempt to invade the Earth.

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