The Day After Roswell
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The Day After Roswell is a book by authors Philip J. Corso, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the US army, and William J. Birnes, which claims that an unidentified flying object of extraterrestrial origin crashed in the New Mexico desert in July 1947. The book claims that there has been a conspiracy involving the United States government to conceal "what really happened" from the world.
The authors claim that technology was recovered from crashed flying saucers and this led to much of our modern technology. Colonel Corso claims to have been head of a Pentagon-based unit that would pass over objects and technology from crashed or recovered UFOs to private industry to copy and develop for industrial use. Corso alleges the items' origin would be attributed to Communist bloc countries to explain their provenance.
Corso also pads his book out with copies of Project Horizon documents, the U.S. Army's 1959 plan for a base on the Moon.
Commonly referred to as "The Roswell Incident", this story is one of the most popular amongst UFO believers, and has been widely debated. The full title of the book is The Day After Roswell: A Former Pentagon Official Reveals the U.S. Government's Shocking UFO Cover-up.
