USA: Corso publishes 'The Day After Roswell' claiming ET tech transfer
Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso published a controversial book in which he claimed to have managed the distribution of recovered extraterrestrial technology from the 1947 Roswell incident to American defense contractors. The publication sparked immediate debate within the UFO community regarding the author's qualifications and the extraordinary nature of his assertions about reverse engineering programs.
Background
In his publication, Corso asserted that he stewarded artifacts recovered from a crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. He described a covert government group assembled under Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter to collect information on off-planet technology. According to his account, the reverse engineering process indirectly led to modern technologies including fiber optics, lasers, integrated circuits and Kevlar. Corso further claimed that the Strategic Defense Initiative was designed not only against Soviet missiles but also to target extraterrestrial spacecraft. These assertions challenged established historical narratives about technological development and Cold War defense planning.