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The Day After Roswell

Written by: William J. Birnes, Philip Corso
Narrated by: William J. Birnes
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Now on audio! The best-selling exposé that ends the decades-old controversy surrounding the infamous and mysterious crash of an unidentified aircraft at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

Backed by documents declassified through the Freedom of Information Act, Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret.), a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and former head of the Foreign Technology Desk in the US Army, has come forward to reveal his personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the Roswell crash. He tells us how he spearheaded the army's reverse-engineering project that led to today's integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, and super-tenacity fibers and "seeded" the Roswell alien technology to giants of American industry. Laying bare the US government's shocking role in the Roswell incident - what was found, the cover-up, and how they used alien artifacts to change the course of 20th-century history - The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that forces us to reconsider not only the past but also our role in the universe.

©1999 William J. Birnes (P)2017 Simon & Schuster Audio

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Wow

Quite a story. I’m not sure if he is as influential in historic events as he says, but even if half of this is true, it is quite a story.

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Pretty interesting if it’s true!

The writing isn’t excellent but I dare say if you’re interested in this sort of thing that doesn’t matter much. He repeats himself a lot, and it isn’t until Chapter 8 that you really get into the meat of the subject matter, but he brings up a lot of interesting points and mentions a lot of official and believable sounding sources. If you have an interest in US military history and technology you’ll love it.

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Wow

Not many book got the roswell incident explained. This read was eyes opening. Its a real behind the scene of what happen before, during and after roswell and the impact of it all. One of the best read out there !

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Interesting reading nice narrator

Excellent narrator and the reading makes you wonder
One book that should be read in ufology

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Amazing For CE-5rs to Understand the Military side

Sink your teeth into this!

The Military testimony that admits the invention of Kevlar, Fiber Optics, Lasers, the Silicon Chip, Night Vision and more came from the materials found at the Roswell crash.

The stance of the Military was and still is that Extraterrestrials are Universally Hostile and here to study and harvest us (silly)

That we won a silent Cold War, during our Cold War with the Soviets versus these EBEs by reverse engineering E.T technologies into counter weapons that can track and hit their Space Craft and detur them from coming into our air space and starting something

As a Contact experiencer myself, I find it laughable to determin all E.Ts are Evil. But I sympathise when viewed through the lense of the Military that any intelegence that crossed Boarders without authorization or seeming ability to stop them, it is immediately determined a threat, an act of war, a decleration of hostility. That is just how they operate.

Read this Book, Listen to it.

This is one of the most important books you may ever come across!

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aliens are real.

the u.s. government lied about aliens while at the same were using alien technology to benefit and kill mankind.

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Far beyond the Roswell crash

Every now and then there's a book that goes far beyond expectations. "The Day After Roswell" could be titled "Roswell: how captured alien technology changed the 20th Century". This is more like a comprehensive alternate history of everything we are taught about the world after WWII. Just like how we see Forest Gump show up in every major historical event if we look closely, Corso's account sheds a different light on nearly all technological inventions and Cold War conflicts. Everything from Kevlar (bullet-proof vests), computer chips, fibre optics and lasers were ideas sparked by trying to reverse engineer captured technology. If we're to believe everything he says, the Cold War involved a threat from extraterrestrials. The MAD arms race and EMP bursts were as much to dissuade alien craft from invading the planet. Not just a story, but a vast alternate history that would take years to invent or even just to write down assuming it's all true. The military initially feared disclosure would lead to a "War of the Worlds" type panic. But also, due to the fact that Rosweel was on par with the Manhattan Project in terms of secrecy, without a time when it could finally be revealed, the whole thing took on a life of its own. Besides, nobody would ever believe it.

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Fantastic!

This book is excellent! The definitive book on the Roswell incident. I would recommend listening to this book then listening to Witness to Roswell. Very compelling stories and evidence in both books.

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hard listen

it was a hard listen. I did not love this book. I would not recommend it

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Interesting, but....

This is a fairly interesting, fairly well written book. Unfortunately, I don't believe any of it.

Firstly, this book discusses extraterrestrials. By definition, these are beings that come from another solar system. Any civilisation able to travel the vast distances between stars would be thousands or millions of years ahead of us, both intellectually and technologically. The idea of finding lasers and fibre optics in such an alien craft is absurd. Further, the author even discusses how much of the technology discussed was already in development. Given that, it's clear that alien wreckage was never necessary for these modern day inventions.

Secondly, the book is less about the aliens themselves, and much more about the internal machinations of the US military in keeping this a secret, while at the same time exploiting the technology found in the crash. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's not was I was looking for or expecting.

Finally, the book asserts that the US is not only responsible for inventing pretty much every major modern technology, but is also the saviour of the world. Although this isn't unexpected (given that it was written by a US army officer), it's still rather annoying and gets old fast.

Overall, a nice little read (or listen). Just don't take it too seriously.

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