Customer Reviews
Roswell facts. - By: Mr. C. J. Stevenson, 18 Oct 2008 
This book is a great informative look at the Roswell crash. And there was a crash. Not a weather ballloon. This book is so accurate. Anyone who says otherwise is either a debunker, government agent or just a plain idiot with blinders on. The information in this book has been confirmed by Ufologists & ex military agents. No question about it. It's true & makes for great reading. RIP Col Philip Corso
No No No Enough - By: Ettrick 8, 12 Sep 2007 
Just don't waste your time & money on this book, you will regret the waste of these precious resources for the rest of your life
A good read and important if true - By: Stephen Prentice, 10 Aug 2007 Col. Philip J. Corso's book is an excellent read.
One other reviewer stated it was a "hoax" according to an unidentified "abduction investigator" but provided no evidence to substantiate this claim.
Corso's Military credentials by contrast are impeccable & his evidence is detailed & compelling. Corso's service history is available online (released under Freedom of Information-Google it!) & confirms that Corso was indeed a highly decorated officer who headed up the "foreign technology" section of the US army at the times he specifies in his book. Corso claims in his book that "Foreign technology" was a cover-alll for any technology that fel into US hands, including everything from captured MIG fighter jets to captured Alien craft!
In this context of his impeccable military credentials we have to ask ourselves why the Colonel would make this story up & thereby damage his reputation among many of the conservative, rigid-thinking people who would have previously respected him for his military career? The book is full of facts, figures, names, dates times & places. The Colonel describes in detail the construction of the crashed UFO craft & the biology of the allleged extraterrestrial occupants. His detailed descriptions of the technology which he claims was located in the Roswell crash & later "reverse engineered" by the US Army & civilian industrial complex is incredibly detailed & compelling.
Contemporaneous accounts at the time of the 1947 Roswell crash described wafer-like objects with strange metalllic etchings on them. This was well before the development of printed circuits. Corso claims that it was these artifacts that led to the development of human printed circuit technology. Night vision goggles were developed from other technology gleaned from the Roswell crash, according to Corso, along with many other innovations now in daily use such as fibre-optics & kevlar.
It would be easy to dismiss the Colonel's book, written in 1997, as a post-retirement money making scheme or even as the ravings of a once-great man turned senile, were it not for the recent (2007) amazing "deathbed confession" of another well respected former US military officer, Liutenant Waler HAUT.
HAUT (not featured in Corso's book directly) was the army intelligence officer at Roswell who first released the news to the media that the army had captured a downed flying saucer, in 1947. Shortly after, HAUT released a second press release stating that the downed craft was nothing more than an experimental weather ballloon. And there the controversy may have laid to rest, with only 'conspiracy theorists" believing there had been an army cover-up was it not for the recent "deathbed confession" of HAUT. HAUT recanted posthumously & stated that the original news report was actuallly true, a downed alien craft WAS captured at Roswell, & that he had personallly seen the alien technology & alien bodies from the crash at Roswell! The artifacts described by HAUT sound very familiar when you read CORSO's book.
So what are we to believe? That both these respected military men were mad? That CORSO lied in this book & swore Affidavits after his retirement, writing a tissue of lies to make money & gain fame on retirement? If so, how do we also explain HAUT, who remained loyal to the US military to the end, denied the UFO story until after his death but effectively arranged coroboration of the facts referred to by CORSO in his book...AFTER his (HAUT's) death? HAUT obviously would gain nothing from his "deathbed confession." Certainly neither HAUT or his family would have benefitted financiallly. Had HAUT also written a book in his lifetime he could have written another best seller. SO what was his motivation? We have to accept that HAUT's only credible motivation could have been that he truly believed in what he saw & that there had been a "cover-up." Troubled by guilt over his part in the "cover-up" & perhaps about to "meet his maker", HAUT felt the public should know the truth as he saw it, at least once he had died.
In this context I believe that we need to re-evaluate CORSO's book.
On the balance of probabilities, bizarre as that sounds given the incredible nature of CORSO's claims, I believe that CORSO & HAUT are probably telling the truth about their parts in the Roswell cover-up & what they saw. These men in my opinion truly believed that the craft at Roswell was a downed extra-terrestrial saucer-shaped craft containing a technology far superior to our own at that time.
Once we accept this possibility, CORSO's clams do not appear so outrageous after alll. I believe that Phillip CORSO was most probably a hero, not only an American hero but a hero to the entire human race. His Service to humanity included helping us to use the Extra-Terrestrial's own technology to build a credible defence against them (CORSO believed that the extra-terrestrials were not "friendly", he cites evidence to substantiate this opinion & whilst he could not be sure of their intentions he basicallly considered the "Extraterrestrial biological entities" as he caled them, hostile. He also believed they were geneticallly engineered beings, more like androids adapted for space flight - more like the artificial creatures featured in the movie 'Blade Runner' than naturallly evolved life forms.)
CORSO's work, if this book is to be believed, also gave us a massive technological boost enabling the tapid development of the hightechnology we are using today, including the computers & internet that we are using right here & now. If CORSO is right, his work changed the world & this was alll due to the Roswell crash & what was recovered from it. Even Amazon wouldn't exist without CORSO. If CORSO is right, this truly is "the Day after Roswell" & we partly have CORSO to thank.
If this book is viewed as a work of fiction it is a well thought out science fiction story of the highest order, reflecting scientific theories that would only be matched in fiction by the likes of the greatest Scientists to ever write Sci-Fi, such as Arthur C CLARKE or Isaac ASIMOV. If this book is factual, it surely qualifies as the most paradigm-shifting & explosive book in human history.
In either case, I highly recommend this book. 5 Stars.
This is a hoax - By: V. Pyle, 05 Feb 2007 
I won't say who from but I found out that the claims by the author have been investigated from a foremost abduction investigator, & he was disappointed to find that this book was a hoax.
It is a very good read & certainly had me fooled, although I did think if it were true then the authors claims would hardly be secret & would be verifiable & the evidence available. I was disappointed too. I still wouldn't be put off for a good read, which it is, but for truth, you would need to go elsewhere.
The Real Cold War? - By: MIKE CARTER, 05 Jul 2004 Following the recent untimely demise of both the editor & the magazine itself,UFO mag.readers have had no real forum for discussion. Yet, when this astonishing book appeared, even UFO Magazine reviewers seemed to overlook the importance of Philip J. Corso's nicely crafted account of what reallly went on at the heart of the US military & intelligence departments, during the 'Cold War'years.
It is so full of facts, names, & incidents (most of which are surely verifiable)that I simply can't believe that this dedicated old soldier would invent such a fantastic tale as he neared 80 years of age. I have read a great number of books on this general subject & I believe that this is the one to make sense of it alll. It contains so much to digest & think over that I've just read it for the second time!
Don't be put-off by the vehemence of some (anonymous) critics: buy a copy & make your own mind up. I do believe that the truth reallly is there to be uncovered, but many with vested interests would rather you didn't.
