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I have serious doubts about Roswell. One of my biggest complaints has been with books such as "The Day After Roswell" by Phillip Corso. Many have asked me to explain in further detail my objections to his book. So I took a week to reread and research. Here is my critique of that book.

Please note that the book I read and thus the page references, are from the edition of the book without the now withdrawn Foreword by Senator Thurmond. That he withdrew his original Foreword should begin to tell you something.

The first thing that struck me was that Corso never comes out and states the exact location of the 'crash site'. He claims not to be very clear on such details even though he claims this event was the single biggest in human history (pp5ff). This after he says that he had over two years(!) to study the files. This, to some, is nitpicking. To me it is only the beginning.

In early 1961 he got the job of exploiting alien technology at the Foreign Technology desk of the Army's Research and Development section. (pp50. 63-64,177). His military records do indicate that he arrived at Army Research and Development HQ in the Pentagon on May 5,1961. A few days before this he was told by his boss, General Trudeau, that he was being followed by CIA personnel. (pp37, 44, 87, 107, 174, 185). This apparently upset Corso so much that he stormed into the office of CIA Director of Covert Operations. He identifies this person as Frank Weisner. (By the way the man's name is 'Wisner' not 'Weisner'. Corso couldn't even get the name spelled correctly). His office, Corso said, was in Langley Virginia. He told Wisner that if he found anyone tailing him, he (Corso) would blow them away with a gun he would be carrying from then on.

Later, in 1961, Corso claims that Wisner was found dead by hanging in a London hotel room (pp87). The problem with all of this is that Wisner had been hospitalized and replaced as the top CIA covert operator three years earlier in August of 1958! He was replaced by, first, Richard Helms and later, permanently, by Richard Bissell on January 1, 1959. His title was CIA Chief of Clandestine Services. Bissell is famous as the head of the U-2 project and the Corona spy satellite project. He was also the architect of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. (New York Times front pages - April 21 and May 3, 1961). Surely Corso should have known this man since he claims to have taken over the Corona project in 1961 (pp131-136)! In all of the interviews I have read with Bissell about his UFO involvements he never mentions the name Corso.

Back to Wisner for a moment. Wisner was not even in the US in 1961 - he had been sent overseas in the less demanding post of Station Chief in London. He was recalled from there in the spring of 1962, having served there from 1959. He resigned from the CIA in August of 1962. Corso could not have driven to his office in 1961 and slipped so easily through CIA security to confront him. Wisner had no office. And Corso could not have had this confrontation in May of 1961 in Langley Virginia for the simple reason that the facility in Langley did not even open until September of 1961 (New York Times May 3, Sept 28, Oct 8 and Nov 6, 1961). Worst of all, Wisner died on October 29, 1965 - a suicide victim by his own shotgun at his farm in Galena Maryland.

Wait - it gets even better!!!

Corso states that he had a personal meeting with Robert Kennedy in May of 1962 (pp2, 37, 156, 191, 206, 255) and shortly after this meeting JFK announced the Apollo project to land men on the moon by the end of the decade. This after Corso explained to RFK all about Project Horizon - a plan to keep aliens at bay from bases on the moon. The problem here is that JFK announced Apollo on May 21, 1961! But then maybe Corso had discovered time travel. Let's take a quick look at Corso's claims about Project Corona. No one who actually worked on that could possibly screw things up as bad as Corso. He didn't even know that Corona was a CIA project. He proposes a ridiculous plot involving some agency hiding spy satellite payloads on another agency's satellites! This was needed, he says, because NASA had assumed control of 'all satellite launchings,' including the military's from 1958 until the 70's. (pp 126, 128-129, 138, 144-147, 155-157). Sorry pal, wrong again. NASA has never had control over military payloads. Ever hear of satellite launchings from Vandenburg AFB? NASA has no control over that, or any other, military facility.

In order to shorten this just a bit suffice it to say that Corso also reveals himself as the hero of the Cuban Missile Crisis (pp253-258), Reagan's SDI (pp 4-5, 78, 115, 243, 249-250 etc), Korean POW revelations (pp 2, 37-38, 87), the exposure of KGB agents inside the CIA (pp 2, 37, 139, 141, 189) and the JFK assassination (pp 2, 87, 206, 208). I have heard that he is now working on a book about the JFK assassination to be called "The Day After Dallas". I am something of a fanatic amateur expert on that assassination. I can't wait to see the drivel Corso will spout about that!

Lastly, Corso is also the hero of the 'war' we fought against aliens. It was he who negotiated a treaty that allowed us time to reverse engineer the weapons we needed (from the Roswell stuff, of course) to win that war.(pp 268ff). Wow! Are we lucky to have had him around all these years!!!! If you ever want to do a case study on the definition of 'delusions of grandeur' , this is a good person to start with! Incidentally, Corso's story of all this reverse engineering is just a new twist on the old 'Ancient Astronaut' theory that says humans were too stupid to build pyramids or invent the wheel. Enough said. I offer this in the hope that all of us will come to realize that to accept any story, theory or book without investigating it from all sides is to blind yourself to how ridiculous some of this stuff really is.

I will leave you all with a quote from the Greek Hypatia - please take it to heart:

"To understand what is at our door is the best preparation for understanding those things that lie beyond."

The truth is out there - but it will never be found by those wearing blinders! Have the courage to challenge your

beliefs from all sides. If they withstand the challenge then they are true beliefs.

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