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From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 20:48:33 +0200
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 15:43:06 -0400
Subject: The Sunday Times [UK] Feature On Corso's Book

The Sunday Times, 8 June 1997, p. 7 in the first section:

IT CAME from outer space. Now the very first X File is being reopened
as a new witness comes from out of the blue to testify that he saw the
body of an alien recovered from the wreckage of a flying saucer in the
New Mexico desert.

The "Roswell" incident has fascinated UFO researchers for 50 years. Now
Colonel Philip Corso, a retired American army officer, has written a
book in which he becomes the highest-ranking person to give evidence
that what crashed was not, as the Pentagon insisted, a high-altitude
balloon, but an alien spacecraft.

Britain's UFO spotters welcomed his testimony this week-end as fresh
evidence that Roswell actually happened, after losing credibility when
a film purporting to show the autopsy of the aliens was exposed by the
Sunday Times as a hoax. Sceptics, though, claim it is Corso who is now
full of hot air, pointing to the fact that he has kept quiet for half a
century only to come forward to cash in on the golden anniversary of
the incident which started the UFO craze.

(snip)---(Recapitulation of the Roswell events and nothing but the
well-known facts)---

In his book The Day After Roswell, Corso claims not only to have seen
an alien who had been killed in a crash but also to have examined the
Pentagon's secret files on the incident. Corso says that the Pentagon
shipped the bodies of aliens to the Walter Reed hospital in Washington,
where autopsies were performed.

The space craft contained technology that baffled the Pentagon's best
scientists, says Corso. He claims parts of the spacecraft were
parcelled out to America's top defence companies and eventually led to
the development of fibre optics, night-vision equipment, lasers,
particle beams and integrated circuits.

The "massive cover-up" of the Roswell incident was not so much to keep
the secret of the aliens from the American people, he insists, but to
allow defence contractors to develop the new technologies without them
falling into the hands of the Russians. Ironically, the defence
contractors were told that the material had been stolen from the Soviet
Union.

Corso said: "Nobody wanted to come in second place in the silent,
unacknowledged alien-technology development race going on at the
Pentagon as each service quietly pursued its version of a secret
Roswell weapon."

Corso had joined the army in 1942 and served in intelligence in Europe.
Later, during the Korean War, he was on General Douglas MacArthur's
intelligence staff and for four years served on President Dwight
Eisenhower's national security staff.

He claims that while he was based at Fort Riley in Kansas in July 1947,
he became curious about a mysterious group of sealed boxes that had
been stored in a secure area. One night, armed with a torch, he prised
open one of the containers.

Inside, he says, was an astonishing sight: "The contents, enclosed in a
thick glass container, were submerged in a thick light blue liquid. At
first I thought it was a dead child they were shipping somewhere, but
this was no child."

"It was a 4ft human-shaped figure with arms, bizarre-looking
four-fingered hands - I didn't see a thumb - thin legs and feet, and an
over-sized incandescent lightbulb-shaped head that looked like it was
floating over a balloon gondola for a chin. I had the urge to touch the
pale grey skin. But I couldn't tell whether it was skin because it also
looked like a very thin one-piece head-to-toe fabric covering the
creature's flesh."

His account is similar to how others have previously imagined the
Roswell "aliens". However, George Knapp, an investigative reporter and
UFO expert, said: "Corso brings a level of credibility to these
revelations that has been sorely lacking in the past. I strongly
suggest that interested parties keep open minds about his claims."

But Karl Pflock, a former assistant secretary of defence and a writer
on UFOs who is working on his own account of Roswell, said: "The book
is a cross between a 1940 pulp thriller and contemporary pop science
fiction. It is one big outrageous joke that a retired officer could
pull off this kind of thing. He offers no proof, no back-up and no
documentation."

Nevertheless, the book wil give weight to the claims of researchers
when 10m people watch a live debate on UFOs on ITV later this month.
Lionel Beer, founder and vice-president of the British UFO Research
Association, said: "Ninety-five per cent of UFO researchers are now
convinced the autopsy film was a put-up job. Clearly something happened
at Roswell, but we may never know exactly what it was."