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A review by sizrobe
The Day After Roswell by Philip J. Corso
4.0
Interesting book. The main thesis is that the alien crash at Roswell in 1947 yielded a tremendous amount of technological wonders, which were all reverse engineered by a secret working group within the government. Stuff like fiber optics and microchips and night vision and lasers were all secretly farmed out to various corporate contracts invisibly enough that their true origin could never be determined.
One of the biggest claims is that the Cold War was secretly a front for funding and developing anti-UFO weapons, and that the CIA and KGB had completely infiltrated one another to the point of making one another worthless. The true threat was aliens that could penetrate our most vital airspace and do pretty much whatever they felt like, and we needed to turn their own technology against them to stand a chance.
If you suspend disbelief, it's an interesting enough book, but I'm not sure I buy it.
One of the biggest claims is that the Cold War was secretly a front for funding and developing anti-UFO weapons, and that the CIA and KGB had completely infiltrated one another to the point of making one another worthless. The true threat was aliens that could penetrate our most vital airspace and do pretty much whatever they felt like, and we needed to turn their own technology against them to stand a chance.
If you suspend disbelief, it's an interesting enough book, but I'm not sure I buy it.