The link below is to a current Art Bell show which is archived and can be listened to at your leisure. The show is a rerun of the July 6, 1997, and July 23, 1997, interviews with Col. Philip Corso.

For those who have followed the UFO scene, Col. Corso wrote a book in 1997 titled The Day After Roswell. This would be about 35 years after he retired from high level secret-clearance Army Intelligence work at the Pentagon. In the book he tells the story of his last two years in the Army in which he took various hi-tech items recovered from the Roswell UFO crash and moved these things into the secret world of the military/industrial complex so that they could be back-engineered and put to use for public advancement.

He introduced such things as Lasers, Fiber Optics, Microprocessors, Night Vision devices, and a few other assorted things. This coincides with the technology explosion that we witnessed in the early 60s. He retired during early 1962, if I remember correctly. He kept his mouth shut due to security oaths for all the ensuing years. By the time he reached his late 70s to early 80s he decided to go public. He will tell his story on the Art Bell interview.

He died under unusual/strange circumstances about two years ago, just as his book was starting to attract wider attention and he was in the process of scheduling major media appearances. Since then, there have been some shoddy attempts to discredit and ridicule him, and the public has all but ignored his book and story. If he were still alive I have no doubt he would be at the top of the list with Dr. Steven Greer in testifying under the Disclosure Project.

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-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

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If Corso is who I think he is, his son has been carrying the torch more recently. The son, now grown up, of course, took no security oaths, but he remembers some of the alien trinkets his dad brought home just after the crash.

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Brooks,

I think you may have some other person in mind, perhaps the son of Major Jesse Marcel, or one of the others directly involved in picking up the pieces out there right after the disc crashed. Actually, there was more than one disc that crashed out there during one period of about 2-4 weeks.

Corso does have a son, and his son stated after his death that the family would collect and release a wealth of information from boxes of records that Col. Corso had kept. Also, there were many long family discussions about the matter in which his dad shared a lot of personal information about his whole involvement with the material. However, to date, I have heard nothing more from his family about any of it. Personally, I suspect they were "approached" and convinced to shut up, same as the Kennedy family has shut up about all the deaths they have had to deal with. Corso, himself, never had any direct contact with Roswell at the time it happened. His involvement in this came in late 1959 or early 1960 when a General in the Pentagon pulled him off White House duty (under the Eisenhower administration) and got him involved with the artifacts and records that had been sitting idle in Army files in basement storage. His story is one of telling you what the records said, photos showed, and what he personally was passing on to the military/industrial complex, including top compaies like RCA that had the clearance from ongoing contracts to secretly deal with such stuff.

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

You're right, Gordon, it was Jesse's son I had in mind.

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001