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    The Day After Roswell
    The Day After Roswell
    The Day After Roswell
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    The Day After Roswell

    Written by William J. Birnes and Philip Corso

    Narrated by William J. Birnes

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    A breathtaking exposé that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious unidentified aircraft crash are still relevant today.

    Former member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and the Foreign Technology Desk in the United States Army, Colonel Philip J. Corso was assigned to work at a strange crash site in Roswell in 1947. He had no idea that his work there would change his life and the course of history forever. Only in his fascinating memoir can you discover how he helped removed alien artifacts from the site and used them to help improve much of the technology the Army uses today, such as circuit chips, fiber optics, and more.

    Laying bare the United States government’s shocking role in the Roswell incident—what was found, the cover-up, and more—The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that not only forces us to reconsider the past, but also our role in the universe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 6, 2017
    ISBN9781508234470
    Author

    William J. Birnes

    William J. Birnes, PhD, publisher of UFO Magazine, is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Day After Roswell with the late Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso; the coauthor of The Riverman and Signature Killers with Robert Keppel, PhD; and the editor-in-chief of The McGraw-Hill Personal Computer Programming Encyclopedia. Dr. Birnes lives in Los Angeles and New York with his wife, novelist Nancy Hayfield.

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    • 5/5
      In 2020 I would have said this is obviously a hoax, but in 2021 it somehow seems very believable... The paradigm has changed.
    • 5/5
      One of the best whistle blowers accounts I’ve ever read ????
    • 3/5
      The storytelling and was interesting to listen to. I don’t know how based in reality the book is parts seem to be over the top but maybe their supposed to be to throw you off. ?‍♂️
    • 3/5
      I don't know how much of it to believe. Inflated
    • 5/5
      Riveting account of a remarkable patriot Col. Corso. I loved it.
    • 2/5
      Picked up this book when I visited Roswell last summer - I was hoping this would be a better book about what actually happened. This guy says this is an accounting of what actually happened - which maybe it is - but the book was sparse on details of the actual crash and more about all of the technology derived from the wreckage.
    • 4/5
      Most reviewers wonder if Corso is telling the truth. Where one stands on that, probably depends upon one's preconceived notions about the subject. Corso really has nothing to gain by lying, therefore it must be. His book is written based on a 2 year assignment in the Pentagon during the early 1960s. That alone would indicate that there were others who held this position before and since...wondering why they have not come forward? That said, this is likely the most credible book on the subject or the Roswell "crash." A fascinating Cold War memoir. The reader must dig through tons of self aggrandizement.
    • 3/5
      The Day After RoswellAuthor: Col Philip J Corso with Wiliam J BirnesPublisher: Pocket BooksPublished In: New YorkDate: 1997Pgs: 341REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERSSummary:As Chief of the Army’s Foreign Technology Division in 1961, Philip J Corso stewarded the Roswell, New Mexico, alien artifcats in a reverse-engineering project that led to: integrated circuits, fiber optics, lasers, super tenacity fibers, and seeded the Roswell alien technology to the giants of American industry. The Roswell tech was a grand leap forward and powered the boom in the 20th century American military-industry complex....If...if it’s true and this isn’t just another cover story.Genre:Autobiography and memoirConspiracy theoriesControversyEspionageGovernmentHistoryMilitaryNon-fictionScience and natureSpaceUFOsWhy this book:Roswell. Truth. Retired Colonel. Senator Strom Thurmond.______________________________________________________________________________The Feel:Feels repetitive chapter to chapter. The format and style and the way the chapter structure is broken up make it seem that a lot of stylistic, textual forms are reused. The same information is re-communicated a number of times.Pacing:The style and repetitive nature of some of the text negatively impacts the flow and pace of the story.Hmm Moments:Post 1947, the CIA, Navy, and Army did more to trigger the Man in Black scare than anything else. They went into a full court press to ferret out Soviet agents in and around the areas specific to the material recovered from Roswell. The plan came out of the Truman administration, probably originating either with the CIA or the DOD.Ask too many questions and knocking at your door would be a couple of plainclothes investigators who didn’t need a search warrant to rummage through your things. So maybe the army was a little overzealous in the interrogation procedures…This gives an excuse for the massive technological explosion that man underwent in the last century, but it doesn’t give man much credit. Yes, it does give him kudos for reverse engineering the tech, but it doesn’t give any credence to the idea that these leaps were purely a product of mankind’s ingenuity. Halfway through the book, I’m begging to get that watching television feel where the guy with the funky hair is about to appear and say, “I’m not saying it’s aliens...but it’s aliens.”______________________________________________________________________________Last Page Sound:Is he part of the cover up and only feeding us “his” version of what happened? By his own admission everything was steeped in hoax and dissembling, so how do you trust his account.Author Assessment:The repetitive chapter to chapter bit with Corso’s angst over the reports and what he’s got and his talks with Trudeau begin to grate after you re-read almost the same exchange for the third or fifth time. Whether these were actually repeated conversations or if these were one conversation remembered a dozen times in service to telling each items’ story as it went through the industrialization process from the Army to R&D guys to the defense contractors is unclear, but each chapter seems to have another repeat of the conversation. Editorial Assessment:Editorially, someone should have said something about how the repetitive structures of the chapters was impacting the story flow. Almost seems like an editor may have only looked at this as each chapter was completed vs how all the chapters hung together as a whole.Knee Jerk Reaction:it’s alrightDisposition of Book:Half Price Book stackWould recommend to:no one______________________________________________________________________________
    • 5/5
      There have been a lot of books written about Roswell, enough to fill a bookcase if not more. When history ends up sorting them all out in terms of their value, Corso's book will be there up at the top. He has the credibility of a high military rank, provable connections to five-star brass. If he said he saw an alien body in a hangar at Wright-Patterson AFB shortly after Roswell, there's no reason to disbelieve him other than the unshakable "show me" attitude of Missouri. Not everyone gets to be an insider, and not every insider has the courage to disclose what they know. So we now know where the super-technological leaps in the post-war era came from: Corso and his Foreign Technology Desk at the Pentagon seeding recovered artifacts to defense industries. This is a good book to reread every few years.
    • 5/5
      at first i thought it may be just fiction but after reading the detail he knows is too much to be ignored. a good part of the back of the book dedicated to declassfied documents projects he worked oniradiated food silcon chips telsa death rays night vision just some of the many iterms helped along by the crash. worthy of a good read