The Days After Roswell

The Days After Roswell

Fifty Years of Lies, Manipulation, Coercion and Control

Review by John Frodsham of The Day After RoswelI by Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret.), with William J. Birnes, Pocket Books, New York, 1997. US$24.

   "We knew their presence [the aliens'] was not benign... They meant us harm and we knew it."

       (CoI. Philip J. Corso, as spokesman for the US government and all other governments.)

   

"We knew their presence [the governments'] was not benign... They meant us harm and we knew it."

(The author of this review, as spokesman for those who believe that all governments at times become a conspiracy against the people.)

Our cynical media, who nevertheless accept without questioning anything the US government hands out on the subject of space-travel, have been breathlessly telling us that NASA has sent the Pathfinder and Surveyor to Mars "to discover whether life can exist throughout the cosmos".  This, of course, is arrant nonsense.  The government of the USA has been only too aware for the last fifty years of the existence of what it calls Extraterrestrial Biological Entities (EBE), some of them much nearer to us than Mars, though it has steadfastly denied their existence, especially the existence of those aliens said to have crashed near Roswell in July 1947.

Colonel Philip J. Corso's book, The Day After Roswell, should finally have officially dispelled the deception, disinformation and lies that have shrouded this event for half a century.  Predictably, the media have virtually ignored his astonishing admissions, ignoring Sherlock Holmes' dictum that “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” [1].  Time magazine, for instance, that mindless Mecca of all debunkers, did not bother to debate whether a man of Corso's eminence would have been crass enough to destroy his reputation and antagonise his friends and former colleagues, both in the services and the Senate, by blatantly lying to the public.  Instead, with irresponsibility and frivolity, it dismissed the book in a single, jeering paragraph before getting down to the serious business of sneering at all other researchers into the Roswell crash except for those who, like Time, dismissed it as a 'Myth', with “religious-like elements” for the delectation of “true believers” [2].  Still, what can one expect of a tabloid which, after correctly depicting a Roswell alien without genitalia, is fatuous enough to give it a navel? [3].  As the Greeks used to say when confronted with similarly conceited blockheads: “Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain”.  For 'gods' substitute 'aliens' and an old saying takes on an unexpectedly ironic tinge.

It should be obvious, even to the most foolishly opinionated, that Colonel Corso's credentials for discussing this hitherto controversial event are impeccable, precluding any debunker's glib dismissal of his astonishing revelations as disinformation, let alone a hoax.  This brilliant Army Intelligence officer, decorated nineteen times for services to his country, was responsible for enabling ten thousand displaced Jews to leave Rome for Palestine at the end of the Second World War.  Later he became, among other things, a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and, eventually Head of the Foreign Technology Desk at the Pentagon.  On his retirement, he served on the staff of two US senators as a national security specialist.  One of these senators, the respected Strom Thurmond, has written the Foreword to Corso's book, commending his “credibility and expertise” and praising him as “a valued source of bountiful information that was insightful and, most importantly, accurate” [4].

Given such credentials, we must surely take Corso's disclosures very seriously.  Indeed, we should be justified in assuming that he would never have written this book without the covert instigation of his former superiors, since an officer of his standing would never have disclosed such jealously guarded information – hitherto classified, as he admits 'Above Top Secret' [5] – without proper authorisation from the highest quarters.

Corso's book, which is currently creating a minor furore in the USA, though almost unnoticed in this country [6] states the following as incontrovertible facts [7]:

An alien space-craft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947.  Alien bodies were recovered and autopsied.

Corso himself examined one of these bodies at Fort Riley and later had access to the autopsy reports.  He devotes many pages to describing the aliens' anatomical features in some detail, noting that their huge heart, lungs and brain were much larger than their human counterparts, while – bafflingly – they lacked any system of digestion, excretion or reproduction.  Their bones were thinner, but stronger and more resilient and flexible than ours, and their inner skin was completely permeable, "as though it were constantly exchanging chemicals...with the combination blood/lymphatic system" (p.96).  The medical examiners concluded that they were perhaps dealing with a creature of very low metabolism, specially engineered to withstand the shocks and physical traumas of space travel, aided by their space-suits of a super-tenacity fibre so strong that it could not be cut with any metal instrument.  Corso speculates that they may indeed have been androids – cloned, humanoid automatons who, according to witnesses at the crash site who found two of them still alive, communicated their suffering and sadness to them telepathically.  Tragically, one of the survivors was riddled with bullets by trigger-happy soldiers as it tried to escape or we should have been able to learn a great deal more about these creatures.  Perhaps they expected no less of homo sapiens, a species that is arguably far more dangerous than the aliens it fears.  Corso later remarks that other alien craft have been recovered, notably one brought down by a missile in Ramenstein, Germany, in May 1974 [8], and are now in the possession of the United States, but makes no mention of the fate of their occupants.  Let us hope that some of them survived our ministrations.

The truth about the Roswell crash was concealed from the public for security reasons, as well as for fear of causing mass panic and the collapse of our society.

Instead, a government within a government, (the so-called MJ 12?) [9] was established to deal with the situation.  In the words of Lieutenant General Nathan Twining, who formulated this policy: "There had to be a way of maintaining full deniability of the flying disk phenomenon while actually preparing the public for a disclosure by gradually desensitising them to the potential terror of confronting a more powerful biological entity from another world."  This policy "would have to be at the same time both the greatest cover-up and the greatest public relations programme ever undertaken" [10].
I might add that Twining's plan worked splendidly.  The long UFO cover-up was a sort of gigantic intelligence test which almost everybody ignominiously failed.  Only a handful of Ufologists were clever enough and determined enough to reach the correct conclusions, in the teeth of decades of governmental denial and threats, coupled with derision and ridicule from the media (the 'little green men syndrome' or 'giggle factor').  Still, those who laugh last, laugh best.  The sceptics and debunkers who have fought such a stubbornly dishonest rearguard action against the truth, using ridicule and defamation as weapons, should now do the decent thing and apologise for their frequent infamous behavior [11].

'The rest to some faint meaning make pretence,
These scoundrels never deviate into sense.' [12]

Not that they will apologise, of course, since they are never wrong.  Judging from past experience, their reaction to Corso's book will be to jeer at it, distort it and denigrate the author's character.

This is not to say that all the debunkers were scoundrels.  Some were simply naïve, like that indefatigable researcher Kent Jeffrey, whose Web site, ‘Roswell – Anatomy of a Myth’ [13], is a mine of information on Roswell, intended to reinforce the mistaken belief that what crashed there was only a 'Mogul' balloon array, carrying three ML 307 radar reflectors, made of bakelite, balsa and foil, prosaic materials which Major Jesse Marcel, Intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group, not only inexplicably failed to recognise but found so extraordinary that he woke up his family in the small hours so they might view these objects “from another world” [14].

Jeffrey goes on to quote from the recently declassified Minutes of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Conference, held at the Pentagon on March 17th and 18th 1948.  The minutes record Colonel Howard McCoy, Chief Intelligence Officer of the AMC, as saying: "I can't even tell you how much we would give to have one of those [alien craft] crash in an area so that we could recover whatever they are".  Jeffrey concludes from this statement, made before a large group of civilian scientists and high-ranking officers, that the Roswell crash never took place.  As further proof, he mentions the well-known letter of September 23rd 1947 from Lieutenant General Nathan Twining to Brigadier George Schulgen, stating that there was no physical evidence for a saucer crash.  Finally, he cites a 'Top Secret' memorandum, ‘Analysis of Flying Saucer Incidents in the US’, sent to the Chief of Air Intelligence Division by a Colonel Brooke Allen on October 11th 1948, which reveals no knowledge of the Roswell crash.  He concludes: "The 1947 and 1948 documents are definitive...They are evidence.  They state definitively that there was no crashed saucer" [15].

Later, in the course of his unflaggingly zealous investigation, Jeffrey went so far as to interview three former colonels who had served with the Foreign Technology Division (FTD).  One of them, George Weinbrenner, was Commander of the FTD from 1968 to 1974, Jeffrey informs us triumphantly, and Weinbrenner told Jeffrey that he knew nothing about any Roswell material.  Since both the other informants, Walter Klinikowski and Walter Vatunac, denied all knowledge of alien artefacts, Jeffrey concludes that this is "the incontrovertible, irrefutable truth, the final confirmation – no alien bodies, no secret hanger and no UFO crash at Roswell.  Case closed" [16].

While there is no gainsaying Jeffrey's good intentions and thoroughness as a researcher, one is left surprised by his naïvety.  It obviously never occurred to him:
•  That the officers he quoted, whether back in the forties or today, may have been deliberately concealing matters classified 'Above Top Secret'.  Corso makes it clear that Twining was lying to Schulgen, since Twining knew the truth and Schulgen was not cleared to know it [17].
•  That these officers might not have known the truth, since the artefacts were so secret that no one in the FTD was ever allowed to learn of them, except for Corso, the trusted friend of Lieutenant General Arthur G. Trudeau, Commander of the AMC in 1961, when Corso was ordered to take charge of the objects from the crash.  Colonel Howard McCoy may well not have been given clearance to know of the Roswell crash.  Even if he did know, he was certainly not going to disclose it to a large conference at the Pentagon!  Similarly, Weinbrenner may well have been genuinely mistaken, rather than merely bluffing a nosy civilian, when he told Jeffrey that if "something like that had happened" he would have known about it.

In short, Jeffrey seems woefully ignorant of the fact that, as Corso makes clear, only a handful of people knew about the Roswell crash, on a need-to-know basis.  Those few who did know would never reveal this secret unless authorised from above to do so.  (This may well include Colonel Jesse Marcel himself, even as late as 1978).  It seems clear that those who even attempted to hint at the truth, in the early days at least, were silenced forever.  Corso himself admits that one Roswell witness, who could not keep his mouth shut, was murdered.  After all, as Sarbacher said, this was a secret classified several degrees above the hydrogen bomb.  It was guarded appropriately [18].

The sad case of Kent Jeffrey, an honest, well-meaning but naïvely overconfident researcher, demonstrates perfectly why the truth about Roswell had finally to be revealed from inside, since it could never be fully uncovered from without, so cunningly had it been hidden.  Corso is the first insider to break cover.  And, as I said earlier, he could have done this only because he was authorised to make these revelations.

The military's greatest fear was that the alien technology recovered from Roswell (and presumably from other craft, though Corso mentions only the Roswell artefacts) would fall into the hands of the Communists.

Corso alleges that Stalin flew into a towering rage after learning of the Roswell crash from his agents in New Mexico shortly after it occurred, and that from then on the Soviets spared no effort to lay their hands on the material.  In this they were aided by the Army's sworn enemies, the CIA, whose cordial relations with the KGB, according to Corso, were so close that any information that came into CIA hands would very quickly find its way to Moscow [19]. This fear delayed the reverse engineering of much of the alien technology until 1961, when, as mentioned above, Corso was put in charge of it by Trudeau, to whose memory Corso dedicates his book.  Indeed, his loyalty to and admiration for Trudeau, a general of extraordinary courage and intelligence, is evident throughout [20].  It is unthinkable, therefore, that Corso would have ever dishonoured the memory of his old friend by dedicating to him a book which was anything but substantially the truth from start to finish.

Faced with a problem that had defied solution for fourteen years, Corso solved it by personally feeding the Roswell artefacts out to trusted defence contractors and scientists (some of them former Nazis!) and inviting them to reverse engineer this “foreign technology”, without giving them any indication of its alien origin.  The outcome of this policy was a long list of “inventions”, ranging from molecular alignment metallic alloys to super-tenacity fibres, the patents of which were duly assigned to the firms that ostensibly discovered them.  Perhaps the most impressive of these were the 'Third Brain' guidance systems, developed from the EBE headbands which integrated the alien pilot with the craft, so that, as Corso puts it, “the pilot was the craft”.

The USA used the Cold War as a cover for its battle against the aliens, who were from the start regarded as hostile.

In the fifties, the military feared that the EBEs might form an alliance with the USSR.  After all, as Corso points out with dry humour, there was no guarantee that the aliens were dedicated anti-Communists!  Eventually, with the reverse engineering of alien particle-beam weapons, (anticipated by that genius, Nikola Tesla), Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative was forced through a sullenly reluctant congress.  Corso alleges that the Soviets were well aware that 'Star Wars' was not directed against them.  As Corso puts it: "Whatever we [ie, the USA and the USSR] were fighting over became minimally important in the face of a threat from these creatures, who were so superior to us in technology that we were their farm animals, to be harvested as they pleased” (p.268) [21].

This last astonishing admission clearly refers to the alien abduction and mutilation of human beings (openly referred to elsewhere in the book) as well as to the mutilation of thousands of farm animals, which Corso admits the governments of the world are still quite powerless to stop – a confession that sits oddly with his repeated assertions that the military have fearlessly protected us all.  Readers will recall that Professor John Mack was hauled before a Star Chamber court at Harvard and almost dismissed from his post simply for having told the truth about alien abductions [22]. One wonders how the world is going to react to the US government's belated disclosure that, like other governments, it is powerless to protect its citizens against abductions, should this book obtain general credence, which I suspect it will not.  A recent (June 1997) telephone poll conducted by Time and CNN showed that only 22% of Americans believe that aliens have had contact with us, while only 17% believe aliens have abducted human beings [23]. The percentages are surely much lower outside the United States.  It will take far more than Corso's book to awaken so many brainwashed zombies from their uneasy slumbers.  As T.S. Eliot remarked, “Mankind cannot bear much reality” particularly when it is as horrific as this.  Cognitive dissonance, as psychologists style it, will surely prevent many of us from facing the truth.  Furthermore, even a belief in the existence of aliens does not imply an understanding of their nature and origin.  Already, in the USA, fundamentalist preachers are telling their flocks that the aliens are fallen angels come reeking from the fiery pit and that prayer will protect them against alien depredations.  Once their Muslim counterparts become aware of the aliens' existence, they are certain to begin chanting the same inane pieties.  They may even declare a jihad (Holy war) against the intruders, with possibly disastrous consequences for themselves and others.

To sum up:  Corso's testimony is nothing less than an official admission, initiated by the US Army, that the US government, along with other 'democratic' governments, has been lying to its people and the world for fifty years.  If Corso's revelations do eventually stir enough Congressmen and Senators to demand an official investigation, this should raise a political outcry on the part of the militant Right, who can then expect to see their numbers swell with disillusioned Americans, inaugurating a revolt against the Establishment which may well lead to even further disclosures.  It is significant that so far there has been no official repudiation of Corso's testimony.  I should be surprised if either the Army or the Administration would ever dare to deny it, for fear of further repercussions.  Now that the Army has finally broken half a century of silence, we may reasonably expect that the other services, including the Air Force, which is still stupidly continuing to prevaricate, will eventually do likewise.  The Office of Naval Intelligence, which has played a key role in this drama, may soon follow suit.  With luck, some of the thicker heads may roll.  In an interview last week, Corso was asked about the Air Force's latest official and imbecilic statement to the effect that the Roswell craft was just a Project Mogul balloon and the alien bodies merely parachuted dummies.  He replied that he "could not comprehend the Air Force's behaviour.  Even children were laughing at it" [24]. Really?  Some of us have been laughing sardonically at such asinine explanations ('Just swamp-gas' or 'merely the planet Venus') for fifty years.

I began this review with a reference to NASA, another dishonest agency that has played its expected part in the cover-up, steadfastly refusing to admit that the 'Face' in the Cydonia region of Mars could possibly be anything but a natural geological formation, even though there is a respected body of scientific opinion which is convinced, on the strength of years of careful analysis, that there is a possibility that the 'Face' and the surrounding features, especially the pyramids, could be the product of ancient, alien intelligence.  Let us hope that Corso's revelations – which, incidentally, include not a single expression of remorse for the sufferings caused to thousands of hapless abductees and contactees by his government's deceptions – will induce NASA to release untouched (ie, un-airbrushed) photographs of the Cydonia region when the Mars Surveyor passes over it in September.  Apparently, according to Corso, NASA has never released the 122 photographs which showed alien bases on the moon!  Presumably, these came from the 250,000 photographs taken by the Clementine 1 probe in 1995, many of which, so Richard Hoagland alleges, showed enormous, ruined structures on the moon, as well as the bases mentioned above.  Dare we hope that the skilled deceivers in NASA will be more forthcoming about Cydonia?

One writer, Gore Adachi, believes they will.  In a shrewdly perceptive monograph, entitled, Life on Mars – Why Now? [25]. Adachi argues cogently that "NASA had strong circumstantial evidence of ET life well before its recent announcement", since there is already such evidence to support the belief that both Mars and the Moon are the home of artificial structures.  He cites the McDaniel Report of Professor Stanley V. McDaniel, who has charged NASA with unscientific behaviour in regard to the landforms discerned in the Cydonia region.  Adachi goes on to advance the thesis that NASA's sudden enthusiasm for the prospects of the existence of life on Mars, as evidenced by its extraordinary announcement of August 6th 1996 concerning possible organic molecules in a meteorite from that planet, (“the biggest discovery in the history of science!”) constitutes the prelude to the “discovery” of life on Europa, followed by the sensational announcement that a high civilisation once existed on Mars, as evidenced by the 'Face' and other artefacts in the Cydonia region.  He believes that the Mars Observer was not lost in 1993, but secretly continued sending coded laser images of Cydonia to the Hubble Space telescope at a time when the latter was supposed to have broken down.  "The high-speed photometer could detect a flickering, coded laser beam blinking at 100,000 times a second (100,000 bits per second).  The only telescope on earth (sic!) that would be able to see Mars, or this kind of signal, would have been one orbiting Earth...The Hubble Space telescope would have been the only possible receiver for the laser signal from the Mars Observer because of the Sun/Mars/Earth geometry at that time" [26].

Adachi concludes that NASA is well aware that Mars was once the home of an alien civilisation which clearly has connections with ancient Egypt.  "The difference is that NASA and the government has entered into a new phase of dealing with the extraterrestrial issue.  The focus seems to have shifted from secrecy to a tightly controlled release of information concerning ET life.  Why, it is hard to say, but three possibilities come to mind:
1.They want to tell the truth, but carefully.
2.They are forced to reveal the existence of ETs, for some reason.
3.They are using the information as a tool to control the masses" [27].

Adachi then points out that the Mars Pathfinder landed precisely at 19.5 degrees North latitude, the exact latitude which Richard Hoagland has repeatedly alleged to be the area where the most dramatic planetary activities take place, being physical manifestations of the tetrahedral energy grid [28]. Therefore, Adachi concludes, we may expect an announcement in 1998 or 1999 to the effect that the anomalous structures in Cydonia are artificial, to be followed shortly afterwards by news of "an official contact between the two races" [29].

It is just possible that Adachi may be right, though I have less faith in those that govern us than he appears to possess.  In my opinion, it may be another fifty years before we are allowed to know the whole truth about alien contact.  In any case, I would modify his last sentence to read "an official contact between us and at least one group of the aliens whose presence the governments of the world (including our own) have been concealing for the last fifty years."  If  Adachi is correct in his prediction, then The Day After Roswell, like the Mars mission, may be part of a carefully-timed plan, culminating perhaps on the very eve of the new millennium, to make the public aware of the aliens to whose presence they have gradually been desensitised, while still maintaining tight control.  As always, the governmental ferrets will maintain their sharp-toothed grip on us befuddled rabbits [30].

Colonel Corso's book, for all its high-handed assumption that the military is always right and that the tax-paying public does not count at all in this world of espionage, secrets, treachery and inter-service rivalries, is nevertheless a work we should all be deeply grateful for.  However, anyone familiar with UFO research must conclude that he has undoubtedly given us only a small fraction of the whole story, fascinating and disquieting as it is.  His superiors must certainly have run a blue pencil through much of what he would perhaps have liked to tell us [31].

In particular, Corso should not be allowed to remain unchallenged in his unproven assertion that though several alien races are encroaching on our planet, all are equally hostile.  Common sense alone should tell us that had such technologically vastly superior cultures wished to invade us, they would have done so, effortlessly, years ago.  One could argue rather that all the evidence points to the aliens regarding us as a failed experiment, a species too greedy and aggressive for its own or any other species' good.  In that case their intrusion upon us would be last minute damage control, an attempt to save the planet from our insane depredations before it is too late [32].  It was no coincidence that they chose to show their hand in 1947, two years after the dropping of the atom bomb, and to show it on the doorstep of the only atom bomber base in the world [33]. As it is, Corso's contention that the world has, since 1947, been saved by the USA smacks too much of a bad B-grade movie (Independence Day?) for anyone to take it seriously.  Perhaps he should have given to his book the pessimistic title I have affixed to this review.

As for his stated belief that, technologically, we are roughly on equal terms with the aliens, one can only ascribe it to either wishful thinking or self-deluding ignorance.  Quite apart from our failure to duplicate even the fuelless propulsion system of the alien craft, which converts an electro-magnetic field into anti-gravity waves and is controlled by the thoughts of the pilot and navigator, we cannot even begin to understand the other achievements of their science, which some scientists, like Dr Hermann Oberth, (who worked on the propulsion system), believe include time-travel [34]. Their civilisation may well be a million years or more ahead of our own.  Quite simply, I believe that in this instance Corso is attempting to boost his own and his readers' morale, at the cost of his credibility, like a nineteenth century African witchdoctor assuring his frightened tribe that his jujus made them all bullet-proof against the Gatling gun [35].

The time has surely come for us to be told the whole truth about the most important event in all of human history – contact with other technologically superior life forms.  It is depressing to realise that Corso's admissions, which should have made headline news around the world, seem so far to have passed almost unnoticed.  Perhaps, like a child hiding under the bedclothes, we believe that if we pay them no attention, the aliens will simply go away. To adapt an old rhyme:

An alien craft streaked through the air,
The government swore it wasn't there.
It wasn't there again today –
I wish to God it'd go away!

Corso's book could hardly have been better timed.  It marks a shocking and momentous close to the ending of this millennium, while at the same time heralding the opening of a new one, which is surely as fraught with the promise of contact with alien races as it is with the dangers which the colonel is at so much pains to emphasise.  Yet so far, the response to Corso's admissions, both in the media and on the Intenet, has been deeply disappointing.  If the finding of possible traces of primitive life on a Martian meteorite could be labelled “the greatest scientific discovery of all time” then with what unsurpassed superlatives could one even begin to describe Corso's revelations?  Yet, dismayingly, the media have either ignored this 'discovery' or yawned at it!  And the public, along with our so-called 'intelligentsia', the sour cream of our finest universities, have for the most part followed suit! Do we dream or wake? Are we so besotted with the ephemeral trivia that passes for news, so dazzled by the jugglers, whores and clowns who entertain us that we can no longer recognise what is of crucial importance to our survival even when it is thrust into our dazed faces?  Are we so steeped in lies that we no longer wish to see the truth even when a spotlight is shone on it?  I am afraid we are, and in my darker moments sometimes believe that since we are thus, there is little hope for us.  Yet, whether we like it or not, Corso has changed history, even though there are but few who can as yet understand this.  From now on, as Yeats put it, the world we knew "is changed, changed utterly" and even the most astute of us – and God knows, they are few enough – do not know "what rough beast / its hour come round at last / slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" [36].

Endnotes:
 
1.  Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; The Sign of Four.
 
2.  Time, June 23rd 1997.
 
3.  Time, June 23rd, 1997. pp.58-59.  Time's attitude to the whole UFO phenomenon has been one of unrelenting hostility since 1947.  This is of a piece with its equally stubborn refusal to admit the existence of anything savouring of psi. (The occult!)  The origin of this intransigent, know-nothing stupidity can be traced to Time's owners, the Luce family, whose staunchly Christian beliefs, which run very close to fundamentalism, would not permit them to embrace anything which ran counter to scientific positivism of a respectable nineteenth century kind.  I would guess that if Time's staff members want to keep their jobs, they know what they must write.
 
4.  Much has been made of the fact that Strom Thurmond, under pressure from his staff, who were fearful of the political backlash the book would cause, later withdrew this Foreword.  Simon & Schuster, Corso's publishers, were, so William Birnes avers, subjected to political blackmail.  In fact, in an interview with Michael Lindemann of CNI News, Corso pointed out that he possesses a letter from Thurmond authorising him to use the Foreword expressly for The Day After Roswell, which Thurmond had read before publication.  See CNI News, July 10th 1997.
 
5.  A classification, be it noted, which several debunkers, like Klass, have assured us does not exist.
 
6.  The Australian carried a brief review of the book before its publication, though the writer, on his own admission, had been given access to only a couple of chapters.
 
7.  Unfashionably, I follow Sir Issaiah Berlin in distinguishing carefully between facts and theories, as well as between theories and mere speculation.
 
8.  I find this story unlikely.  Craft that can easily evade particle-beams – we have film taken from a shuttle of one doing so over Australia – are, to say the least, most unlikely to have fallen prey to the type of primitive missiles stationed in Europe in the early seventies.  I believe the Ramenstein craft may have been another deliberate sacrifice, like one at Roswell, for I cannot share Corso's conviction that the latter was struck by lightning!  See note 33 below.
 
9.  Corso nowhere refers to this group as MJ 12.  But the list of its members given on p.74 is identical with the list of MJ 12 members with which many of us are familiar.
 
10.  Corso, The Day After Roswell, p.75
 
11.  Naturally, I exempt from these strictures those who were perfectly well aware of the true state of affairs and simply lied for the money.  Intellectual whores, like the poor, are always with us.  Most Ufologists know who they are.  Unfortunately, the laws of libel forbid my naming them, though some of them are a really class act.
 
12.  Dryden, 'Absolom and Achitophel', (adapted slightly).
 
13.  At http://www.roswell.org/myth-06.htm
 
14.  Jeffrey argues that these materials would have been unfamiliar to Marcel and his family!  Yet bakelite was commonplace, as was foil, and Marcel's son made model airplanes from balsa.
 
15.  The 1948 Military Documents, at http://www.roswell.org/myth-06.htm
 
16.  The ‘Guardians of the Hanger’, at http://www.roswell.org/myth-15.htm
 
17.  Phillip Klasss recently cited this letter, triumphantly, as a document that no UFO researcher dared to cite in full.  As always, he was ludicrously wrong, since the passage in question has been cited several times.
 
18.  When one recalls how many people were murdered (around 300?) to cover up the truth about John Kennedy's assassination, a matter of comparative unimportance compared with the Roswell crash, one realises that many careless talkers must have been 'terminated with extreme prejudice', as they used to say at Langley, over the past half century.
 
19.  Given the number of traitors the CIA has produced in the last few years alone, one should have no difficulty in believing this.  Perhaps this is why the hero and heroine of The X Files were assigned to work for the FBI, though the NSA would have been a far sounder choice.  But few viewers could respect a CIA agent, even if she looked like Scully.
 
20.  Trudeau had distinguished himself during the Korean war at the battle of Pork Chop Hill.  Faced with a desperate position, he saved the day by donning a sergeant's helmet and leading his men in a victorious charge uphill – a feat worthy of Patton.
 
21.  My emphasis.  Corso is remarkably coy about the implications of abductions.  What does one say about a military establishment incapable of protecting its own wives and daughters from sexual violation?
 
22.  The kangaroo 'court' held twenty-nine sessions, so determined was the Harvard establishment to rid themselves of this importunate don.  Had Mack not been able to afford the $100,000 it cost him to defend himself, it seems certain that he would not have survived this vicious onslaught.
 
23.  Time, June 23rd 1997.
 
24.  Interview with Michael Lindemann, CNI News, July 10th 1997.
 
25.  See the Internet site ‘Prophetic Insights’.  Adachi can be contacted at Adachi@cris.com
 
26.  Adachi, Life on Mars, p.5
 
27.  Ibid. p.7
 
28.  See http://www.waldonet.net.mt/~mufor/plananom.htm.  Hoagland's resurrection of 'hyperdimensional physics' involves a theory that argues that the geometry of the Cydonia complex encodes a message explaining how hyperdimensional energy interacts with our dimensions.  He points out, among other interesting facts, that Olympus Mons, the huge Martian volcano, lies at 19.3 North latitude; the Great Red Spot on Jupiter lies at approximately 19.5 degrees South, as does the Great dark spot on Neptune.
 
29.  Ibid, pp.10-11.
 
30.  As they do in popular myths like The X-Files, Dark Skies etc.  Dimly, we sense and fear what is happening, but prefer to encounter it as fiction.
 
31.  Including details of direct negotiations or at least contact between the US government and the aliens; alien bases on earth and in the oceans; government participation in abductions (frequently alleged by abductees); the abduction of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, as alleged by Bud Hopkins in Witnessed (l996); classic disappearances of aircraft (like that of Frederick Valentich); alien activity around American bases in Puerto Rico; cattle mutilations (which Corso learned about from Hoover in the early 1960s, long before ufologists had spotted them; the development of mind-control weapons; the Varginhas affair (a Brazilian Roswell) and much more. It is interesting that Corso was allowed to hint at the CIA's involvement in the assassination of Kennedy: "By the end of 1962, the President would learn from his own brother, who would learn from me, just how deliberately flawed the information coming out of the CIA was.  And I would also learn, when I worked for Senator Russell on the Warren Commission in 1964, how that had sealed his fate" (p.206).  The implications of this statement are momentous.  If the Warren Commission knew that the CIA had killed Kennedy, there is no hint of it in their report.  Yet another cover-up!
 
32.  I am not arguing, like so many fuddle-headed New Age believers in 'our space brothers' that the aliens are attempting to save us.  But they do appear to be interested in our sperm and our ova.  This makes sense.  If they did genetically engineer us – my own belief – then they may have some interest in interbreeding with us before we disappear, to save what little is worth while in SOME of us.  Why engineer us, you may ask?  Zechariah Sitchin suggests they wanted us for a disposable labour force.  Very dubious!  Why not use robots?  We may simply have been an interesting experiment.  If they did engineer us, they did it in a way that suggests they had no great regard for our welfare.  For instance. we have a relatively poor immune system (are subject to over 70,000 diseases); lack the ability to manufacture our own Vitamin C, (scurvy is a pre-mortal syndrome and we spent most of our history surrounded by ice!); are prone to dental decay, resulting in generalised septicaemia as the major cause of death in many medieval populations; have to waste one third of our short lives in sleeping; are notoriously lethally aggressive towards those outside our own small group, as well as to those within it; use speech to lie and confuse others; and until comparatively recently had an average life span of twenty-three years.  As for the construction of our generally mediocre brains, with the limbic system tagged onto the meso-cortex and the whole contraption then grafted onto the neocortex, the less said the better.  Ask any intelligent psychiatrist (they do exist) what he or she thinks of that arrangement.  Surely the alien geneticists could have bothered to construct us as least as well as their own clones, the Greys?  But their interest may end with that ominous interbreeding (Conserve their genes! They haven't got long to go!) that figures so largely in abductees' reports.  I cannot see the aliens as champions of lost causes.  In fact, they may well have a desire to stop us from wiping out virtually every species on the planet before we finally destroy ourselves; and the most effective way to do that would be to help us commit suicide.  After all, planets as richly diverse as this one may not be so common that they can idly stand by and watch us trash it.  And it is much easier to replace one species than several million.
 
33.  And Corso expects us to believe that the aliens crashed just outside the base by accident?  He is either naïve or concealing something we are not allowed to know.
 
34.  Oberth is not alone in this conjecture.  Some, perhaps all, of these craft are certainly inter-dimensional.  If so, then they are well aware of the possible as well as the most probable futures that await us, which may account for their disclosure of themselves during the last half-century.  Whatever this betokens, it surely cannot augur well for us.
 
35.  Corso says nothing about alien mind-control, with which we are familiar from hundreds of abductees' reports.  If indeed the aliens do have such control over our minds, and I can see no good reason for doubting that they do, then clearly they have always been in full command of the situation, and may indeed be setting the pace for disclosure.  Who is to say, for example, that Corso and his superiors were not compelled to write this book, in obedience to unconsciously registered alien instructions?  This and other cogent considerations such as the aliens' apparent ability to treat matter as though it were as penetrable as water, as well as to use light to combat gravity, clearly render ridiculous any attempt to represent us as being able to engage them successfully in combat, or even thwart their intentions in any significant way.
 
36.  Lines taken from ‘Easter 1916’ and ‘The Second Coming’ respectively.

[From Journal of Alternative Realities, Vol 5, Issue 1, 1997]

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