Roswell: The REAL Story

I just finished reading a remarkable book called The Day After Roswell. It was written by Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret) with William J. Birnes. Corso is well qualified to write this story as he is a former Pentagon official, a bronze star recipient with an impressive military career that includes spending years analyzing the recovered spacecraft and artifacts from the crash. Corso was the Chief of the Army’s Foreign Technology Division and a member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council. This book was written based on his first-hand involvement, eyewitness reports, and declassified documents. Corso blows the lid off a sixty-five-year-old government cover up. Read on if you want to know more about what really happened at Roswell…

Part I. The Crash

On July 4, 1947, Army Counterintelligence picked up strange activity during their nightly monitoring of the area near the top secret military installation. They realized that whatever aircraft had been in the area had crashed. Since this was the height of the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia, they were sure it was Russian aircraft that had gone down. Military was dispatched immediately with instructions to keep civilians away from the site. When the men got there, they discovered it was not the Russians who had crashed but aliens.

This happened just after Orsen Welles’s ‘War of the Worlds’. Government feared that the public couldn’t handle knowing about the alien invasion, so the cover-up plan was hatched. The military turned away local first responders and everyone else, refusing to give any information other than “national security.” They retrieved every single piece of debris they could find and the spacecraft and aliens and hauled it all back to the base.

But a few people, including a local fireman and civilian contractor, got a close up look during the initial chaos. They were soon warned to forget about what they had seen if they knew what was good for them. The military would have denied any incident happened at all, no doubt, except that there were campers, local ranchers, Indian artifact hunters, and local authorities who had witnessed the crash.

Those who got close enough say that the aircraft was not in a million pieces but appeared to be nominally damaged—and that it didn’t look like an airplane but more like a flying saucer or disc. Those who got a good look at the aliens say that all seemed to be dead and were being put into body bags but there was one that was alive but appeared to be dying. He was described as no bigger than a child with an over-sized balloon-shaped head with large, dark eyes that set apart from each other on a downward slope. The nose and mouth were especially tiny, almost like slits. The body was grayish-brown and completely hairless. The alien seemed to be in a lot of pain, but did not make any sounds.

Part II. The Cover Up

The flying saucer story was released by the 509^th base commander, Bull Blanchard. General Roger Ramey forced a retraction as soon as the story went public. The Army made Major Jesse Marcel admit that he had made a mistake, that they had not been a flying saucer but only a weather balloon. They even made him pose with balloon debris they had staged to add credibility to their cover-up story. Marcel recanted this lame story upon his deathbed, saying that the first report about an alien aircraft was true.

Mac Brazel retrieved some pieces of the aircraft he found on his property before the military arrived. When they found out, they threatened him and seized the items. The recovered items and aliens were quickly shipped out of Roswell. They were sent to the 8^th Army Air Force Base in Fort Bliss, TX; Wright Airfield in Ohio; and Fort Riley, Kansas.

Corso was a major stationed at Fort Riley and this is when his involvement with Roswell began. On the night of July 6, 1947, a sentry approached him with a disturbing report. He said the Corso had to come see what he had just seen. Curiosity got the better of the intelligence officer and he followed the young man, who opened a crate to reveal a coffin filled with some of glowing liquid and an alien submerged inside.

As soon as he saw the alien encased in the strange coffin, he knew he better forget what he had seen. He advised the sentry to do the same. But that was just the beginning of his association with the Roswell project.

General Trudeau gave Corso “the package,” which was the code name for the crash artifacts and reports. He explained that it was top secret, that no one could know but those he needed on his team. Corso and his team of scientists spent a long time evaluating the valuable technology that had fallen out of the sky and into the army’s lap.

Scientists never got the answer to some questions, such as how the aliens disposed of their waste. There was no bathroom or comparable facility on board the spacecraft. The research and development team was astonished with most things associated with the aliens. It was all beyond anything the U.S. was familiar with at that time, such as fiber optics and supertancity fibers. If they could figure some of it out, it could go a long way in furthering the U.S. weapons systems, including missile technology.

That information is classified and unavailable, as well as anything else about extraterrestrial existence. But we can be certain that there have been more alien encounters since 1947 and that our government is still not telling us…