From: KRandle993@aol.com <Kevin Randle>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:45:55 -0500 (EST)
Fwd Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:25:32 -0500
Subject: Re: New Book Claims to Blow Lid on Roswell

Okay, since everyone seems to be concerned with Philip Corso and his upcoming
book, THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL, here's what I know.

Corso claims to be a lieutenant colonel in 1961 and worked on the Foreign
Technology desk for Army research and development at the Pentagon. In that
capacity, he claims to have been made privy to the Army's capture and reverse
engineering of the UFO that crashed near Roswell. He tells how the craft had
been penetrating US airspace, shooting down our aircraft and have been
abducting people. He claims that the material was moved from Roswell by truck
and that he stopped overnight at Fort Riley, Kansas... the base at which
Corso was assigned in 1947. He claims that one of the guards, a bowling buddy
of his, sneaked him into the top secret area so that he would have a change
to see the damaged craft. Security at these facilities must have been
horrible because of all the people who managed to penetrate them to see the
"secret of the millineum." Oh, yes, he pulls back a tarp to see one of the
alien bodies.

Corso describes the alien debris, all of which we have already heard
described by so many others. And he delves into science fiction with a head
piece that might be a guidance system.

Then, in what may delight Stan Friedman, or piss him off, Corso claims to
have been assigned to the staff of MJ-12. Here, for the first time, we're
treated to the tales of a true "insider" who was on MJ-12. Through his job at
the Foreign Technology desk, they hoped to feed the technology recovered into
American industry so that it can be intergrated into the world and used by
the military.

Yes, Corso names names... Vannevar Bush, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Nathan Twining
and Walter Smith. He also throws in LT. GEN Arthur Gilbert Trudeau who, in
1961, was the eighth-highest-ranking lieutenant general. Though I haven't
checked, I'd be surprised if he was still alive to corroborate Corso's story.
BTW: Corso's name doesn't appear in the registery of all Army officers in
1961... but given the size of the Army, I wouldn't be surprised if there were
some mistakes in it.

Corso goes on to name Werner von Braun, Wilbert Smith, Robert Sarbacher and
John Von Neuman. If nothing else, he has read all the UFO literature... There
really is nothing new here.

Corco claims that the intergrated circuit chip, the laser, and fiber optics
are all the result of alien technology. He claimed that the scientists
learned that the broken ends of the thin wires would emit light... Something
that young rancher Bill Brazel noticed in 1947.

Corso mentions Project Horizon which was a plan to build a base on the
moon... ultimately the plan was canceled and the space program given to NASA.
He also talks about Project HARP, which was the development of a supergun,
which to me proves that Corso watches HBO and their movie about Jerry Bull's
supergun. He even brings up the images of Jules Verne (talk about Nineteenth
Century technology) to illustrate the concept. Yes, I enjoyed the HBO movie
and have watched it a couple of times.

He credits the alien technology with the development of the Star Wars defense
or a response to the threat of alien invasion... a concept I think that Phil
Klass and Jim Moseley might have invented over a glass of beer a number of
years ago.

Anyway, that's a run down on Corso's book. To me, and this is my personal
opinion, because he claims to have been on the staff of MJ-12, his book is
less than accurate. That he ties the abduction phenomenon to aliens suggests
that he knows nothing more than the rest of us and is another reason to
dismiss this as just opportunism. Anyone who has watched television for the
last five years, read the books available, and kept track of what is
happening, has been exposed to all these revelations already. As I say, the
only check I have made on Corso's background was to search for his name in
the U.S. ARMY REGISTER, Volume 1, the active and retired list, dated January
1, 1961. His name does not appear.

There is nothing here that I was count on blowing the lid off the Roswell
case. It might be that Corso is laying low until the publication of his book
because he doesn't want to be scrutinized until after publication. I find the
references to his personal involvement in MJ-12 to be the smoking gun about
the credibility of the book. I would be interested in Stan Friedman's
comments, considering his efforts to prove MJ-12 authentic.

KRandle