The original post: /r/aliens by /u/VolarRecords on 2024-09-07 09:21:56.
Original Title: June 5th, 1997 New York Times article about Philip J. Corso's 'The Day After Roswell' and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who wrote the foreward to the book and endorsed the character of Corso, who worked as his aide after leaving the Army in 1963
In a possibly cosmically-ironic act of subterfuge, US Army Colonel Philip J. Corso--who served in high positions in the military and was directly involved with Roswell and its crash-recovered materials--left the Army in 1963 and went on to work as an aide to longstanding South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond.
Anyone who follows politics knows that Thurmond was an avowed racist and vehemently opposed the Civil Rights Act, giving the longest filibuster of its time in an effort to quell the measure that was ultimately signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson that year, who took office following the assassination of JFK a year prior.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/civil-rights-act
Here's the NY Times article published on June 5, 1997, following Philip J. Corso's 'The Day After Roswell' becoming a NYT bestseller, much like Luis Elizondo's Imminent is currently.
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/05/us/senator-regrets-role-in-book-on-aliens.html
- June 5, 1997
--A new book contending that the nation's military and industrial power largely derive from a crashed alien spaceship is being disparaged by Senator Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who wrote the book's foreword.
The book, ''The Day After Roswell,'' published by Pocket Books, says the Government found an alien craft that had crashed in the desert near Roswell, N.M., in July 1947 and set up a program to glean and use its secrets, including lasers, computer chips and fiber optics. Meanwhile, the book says, the Government covered up the existence of the aliens. The author, Philip J. Corso, who retired from the Army in 1963 and wrote the book with William J. Birnes, says he helped with this endeavor.
The book might be dismissed, as others in the genre have been, except for the author's military background, his claimed role and Senator Thurmond's praise of the author in the foreword.
Mr. Corso contends that, while at the Pentagon, he personally spearheaded an Army project that secretly planted the alien technologies throughout the economy and military, mainly to build up American strength to fight an inevitable war against alien invaders.
In the foreword, Senator Thurmond, a South Carolina Republican, says Mr. Corso worked for him as an aide after leaving the Army and praises him as a person of integrity who served his country well. ''He has many interesting stories to share with individuals interested in military history, espionage and the workings of our Government,'' Senator Thurmond wrote. But he made no mention of the book's central thesis of inadvertent aid to the United States by space aliens.
In a statement, Senator Thurmond said that he regretted that his foreword appeared to bolster claims of a Government conspiracy. ''I know of no such 'cover-up,' '' the Senator said, ''and do not believe one existed.''
Liz Hartman, director of publicity for Pocket Books, said in an interview that confusion over the book's topic appeared to center on Senator Thurmond's office and staff rather than Mr. Corso's revelations. ''We absolutely stand by the book,'' she said. ''It's a memoir.''
Here's a clip of an interview Corso did with George Knapp that aired after 'The Day After Roswell' was released:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCftd_FHwE
Here's the full interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWg5IZgssGs&t=4s
Here's a Dateline NBC interview with Corso about Roswell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI1RWIWHll0
Here's a nice super-short clip by the great UFO researcher Michael Schratt on Corso:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XTK6WfHnZf0
Here's a great Weaponized episode from nine months ago about the lost tapes of Philip J. Corso:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCftd_FHwE
Here's Corso's basic record according to his Wikipedia. They can't all be scrubbed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Corso
Philip James Corso (May 22, 1915 – July 16, 1998) was an American Army officer.
He served in the United States Army from February 23, 1942, to March 1, 1963,[\1])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Corso#cite_note-1) and earned the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Corso published The Day After Roswell in 1997, about his alleged involvement in the research of extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell Incident.
On July 23, 1997, he was a guest on the popular late-night radio show, Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell where he spoke live about his Roswell story.[\2])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Corso#cite_note-2)
Biography
Military career
After joining the Army in 1942, Corso served in Army Intelligence in Europe, becoming chief of the US Counter Intelligence Corps in Rome.
In 1945, Corso arranged for the safe passage of 10,000 Jewish World War II refugees out of Rome to the British Mandate of Palestine. He was the personal emissary to Giovanni Battista Montini at the Vatican, later Pope Paul VI, during the period when the "Nazi Rat Lines" were most active.
During the Korean War (1950–1953), Corso performed intelligence duties under General Douglas MacArthur as Chief of the Special Projects branch of the Intelligence Division, Far East Command. One of his primary duties was to keep track of enemy prisoner of war (POW) camps in North Korea.[\3])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Corso#cite_note-3) Corso was in charge of investigating the estimated number of U.S. and other United Nations POWs held at each camp and their treatment.
At later hearings in 1992 of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Corso testified that he believed hundreds of American POWs were abandoned at these camps.[\4])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Corso#cite_note-4)[\5])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Corso#cite_note-5) Committee member John McCain stated that his knowledge obtained from those who had personal relationships with Eisenhower led him to believe that Eisenhower was just not capable of allowing known American POWs to remain incarcerated after the termination of the Korean War.
Corso was on the staff of President Eisenhower's National Security Council for four years (1953–1957).
In 1961, he became Chief of the Pentagon's Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and Development, working under Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau.
Here is the Wiki bio of 'The Day After Roswell':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Roswell
The Day After Roswell is an American book about extraterrestrial spacecraft and the Roswell incident. It was written by United States Army Colonel Philip J. Corso, with help from William J. Birnes, and was published as a tell-all memoir by Pocket Books in 1997, a year before Corso's death. The book claims that an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 and was recovered by the United States government who then sought to cover up all evidence of extraterrestrials.
Synopsis
Philip J. Corso (right) in 1945
The majority of the book is an account of Colonel Corso's claims that he was assigned to a secret government program that provided some material recovered from crashed spacecraft to private industry (without saying where the items came from) to reverse engineer them for corporate use. Corso was a Special Assistant to Lt General Arthur Trudeau, who headed [Army Research and Development](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Army_R...
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