BOOK REVIEW:
Colonel Phillip J. Corso (Ret.)
"The Day After Roswell"

Review by George A. Filer, MUFON Eastern Director

If true, this may be the most important book of the century. Colonel Phillip Corso and his co-author William J. Birnes, Ph.D. not only confirms that aliens are visiting Earth, but they are attempting to colonize the planet. Most shocking perhaps of all is their harvesting of human beings and animals. Further, to stop the so called harvesting we continue to be involved in a Cold War with EXTRATERESTIALS. "They had tried to disrupt our space program for years-Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and even the Space Shuttle. They buzzed our capsules traveling through space, interfered with our transmissions, and pulsed us with EMP bursts just like we used to do the Soviet surface ships.... On page 127, Corso states "Sometimes we actually got lucky enough to score a hit with a missile before the UFO could take any evasive action, which an army air defense battalion did with antiaircraft missile near Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany in May 1974. The spacecraft managed to crash-land in a valley. The craft was retrieved and flown back to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

I suggest the alleged Ramstein crash should be investigated, because most of the people involved in this action are still alive. " Colonel Corso further states "But as spectacular and fantastic as it may sound, the story behind the limited deployment of the SDI is the story of how humanity won its first victory against a more powerful and technologically superior enemy, who discovered to whatever version of shock it experiences, that there was real trouble down on its farm."(p.250) In other words, we are at war, there are periodic skirmishes, and we're holding our own with the extraterrestrials using Star Wars Technology..

Apparently, General Douglas Mac Arthur who Corso quotes was right, when he told the New York Times back in 1955, "The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the Earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets."

I'm not oblivious to some of the apparent errors and lack of proof in the book, I could just as easily find reason to criticize the book. In many ways, the book seems too unbelievable to be true. However, I suggest caution, my experience has been that men of the caliber of Col. Corso and Gen. Mac Arthur may sometimes make mistakes, they might even exaggerate, but their word and their honor are more important to them than money and fame. Corso explains a small UFO working group within the government believes one or more alien cultures are testing both our ability and resolve to protect ourselves. Abductions, mutilations, various offensive actions are part of these skirmishes. We apparently lost many aircraft and men. Interestingly, he claims, the army and air force managed to find at least 122 photos taken by astronauts on the moon, that showed some evidence of alien presence. (p.129).

This is a landmark book not to be taken lightly. Consider the history of the Earth and UFOs in the last fifty years. Why is the Cold War over? Why have our former enemies, the USSR and the Warsaw Pact and the United States joined together as allies? ?Why are there numerous joint exercises of United Nations forces on our soil?. Corso claims, "For over fifty years, now, the war against UFOs has continued as we tried to defend ourselves against their intrusions." I ask you to reflect and consider the possibility that these men are correct, and that we are at war. Alien craft the size of ocean liners are in our skies, we have a series of unexplained aircraft crashes.

I'm sorry to report the book offers little concrete proof that its assertions are true. He has no convincing documents, photos or diagrams of the extraterrestrial artifacts or aliens. However, the book has a ring of truth that deserves meticulous investigation. My biggest criticism is his description of his examination of an alien body at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1947. I'll admit the authors may have taken some poetic license in various parts of the book, but they understand government, the military and how things are accomplished. Those who read this informative book, now know what it's like to be an insider, you may have finally learned the basic truth. How does it feel? Can we believe it? Senator Strom Thurmond even wrote the foreword to the book, and he must have know some of this information. Is it time to start preparing for a very different future than most of us expected? I suggest you read it!