Lasers, fiber optics, transistors, microchips, and most of the technological advances of the last 50 years were retro-engineered from the crashed Roswell UFO. So says author Philip Corso in this intriguing book. Whether you believe his claims or not, his suggestions stimulate thought. Corso's responsible positions in government and his detailed knowledge of developmental processes make his statements sound plausible. His dramatic and extensive, but undocumented, claims would be much more credible if he didn't end the book by also claiming to be the person who forced JFK into the Cuban Missile Crisis--and if Senator Strom Thurmond, who wrote the Forward to the first edition, hadn't demanded that it be removed from subsequent editions because he had written it for a completely different (non-UFO) book. While the book is quite interesting to read, in the long run it probably detracts as much from the serious study of UFOs as it adds.
Considering the book from an entirely different angle: some of the passages are beautifully written. The opening lines depicting Roswell's locale create the perfect mood for a visit to the world's most famous UFO location.
-Lynn Michelsohn, author of Roswell, Your Travel Guide to the UFO Capital of the World!

A very nice book to read. As for the facts, it is up to each and everyone to decide. I don't think we are alone, and this book if true just shows us one small encounter of humanity with the rest of life in the Universe.

I have only just begun this book and already have read about coverups and unscrupulous activities within the government. Even if we have had "visitations" from other worlds, what would be the harm in letting the public know? I hope the rest of the book provides some answers.

Consider this book the ultimate reference on alien technology, advancement of American spatial discoveries, extraterrestrial reverse engineering and the psyche of American coverups and conspiracies. Fascinating book fueld by first hand data, reliable sources, military archives and those who are on the inside. Dynamite!

I read The Day after Roswell ten years ago. The book is not easy to forget. Two years after second world war came Roswell saucer, transistor, Dead Sea Schrolls, and independence to India. United Nations Human Rights Declaration came in 1948. Philip Corso had a lot to tell about the Roswell incident. This book is ok, interesting and entertaining. Better and better!

One has to give Philip Corso the benefit of his credentials and security clearance. The dramatic or poetic opening and closing seems a bit quaint but the environmental dark does swallow you up at night out there in the deserts of New Mexico.

There is some circumstantial "evidence" put forward, like the cover/contact lens of the aliens eyes that also makes one wonder if he saw the, now exposed, fake alien autopsy movie. Still, it is probable but there is no proof or evidence. Others might argue that much of the technology discussed was already under way by the time of the early 50's and 60's.

It is a good read and i find the video interviews with Corso, that i have seen, to be quite credible in his mannerism - reflecting a man of his previous experience and positions. The bottom line, Corso says that there was a vehicle that crashed, and bodies were recovered.

I wouldn't waste a lot of time on this run-of-the-mill alien fantasy, since anyone with a basic familiarity with the history of science will recognize the howling inconsistencies in Corso's claims that he "inserted" advanced alien technology into the R&D mainstream .. and nobody noticed, anywhere. Since the long & tedious history of microchip technology, lasers, masers, fiberoptics, and the rest of Corso's "alien" technology is well-documented in thousands of places, for anyone to study if they wish, this amateurish little book will only fool the scientifically illiterate and the conspiracy groupies who lack the .perseverance to actually take science courses. Unfortunately, there are a lot of those out there ....

An internet search will also reveal Corso's other wild-eyed claims, such as his claims to have met and telepathically communicated with aliens in the desert, or his claims to have seen -- and touched -- flying saucers that appear and disappear magically. Corso's fans don't like to talk about those interviews, but a rational person will consider them along with Corso's other claims.

His purported military experiences don't survive the smell test well, either, for anyone with a fair amount of military experience, especially in the intel or R&D fields. Certainly he held some responsible positions, as many majors and lieutenant colonels, but that doesn't prevent any individual from becoming a fruitcake later in life, or just manufacturing "experiences" to make up for his relative obscurity after he left the military. Some of his claims -- for example, that his foreign technology office was "dissolved" when he & Trudeau left -- are just silly. There were foreign technology offices that exploited captured materiel long after he left, notably at Wright-Pat AFB and other less-known places. I personally sent materiel there as recently as the 80s. I probably don't need to add that the number of people involved in these efforts over the years make the likelihood of Corso's tales nearly zero. Hundreds, probably thousands, of people would have first-hand knowledge of all the "alien" technology, and you can guess the likelihood of this "secret" being kept this long, by that many...not even counting Corso's claims that many other countries & governments had similar "Roswell-type" recoveries and exploitation programs.

One can't help feeling sorry for poor Corso, and wondering just how bleak his later years must have become for him to have found this Great Conspiracy necessary to his emotional well-being. You also can't help liking the guy, and wishing he had found more satisfaction in the really important and valuable work he REALLY did. I salute his service ... but I don't believe a bit of his UFO pipedreams.