United States Army officer, 1915 to 1998, and author with William J. Birnes of The Day After Roswell (1997), the book that moved the Roswell argument from what fell in the desert to what was allegedly done with it for the next fifty years. His service record, released under the Freedom of Information Act in August 1997, documents Italy from 1943 to 1947, Far East Command G-2 from 1950, an intelligence billet attached to the Operations Coordinating Board from 1954 to 1956, a Nike battalion command in Germany in 1957, and Army Research and Development in the Pentagon from June 1961 until his retirement as a lieutenant colonel on 1 March 1963.
The book claims he saw a small non-human body in a crate at Fort Riley on 6 July 1947 and that in 1961 he inherited a cabinet of Roswell artifacts which he and Arthur Trudeau fed into defence contracts, producing the integrated circuit, the laser, fibre optics and Kevlar. Nothing in the record corroborates either claim, and the record contradicts several supporting details. The introduction opens with “two incredible years” heading the Foreign Technology Division desk; the file shows one year in the division and three months in charge. Philip Klass and Kevin Randle catalogued the rest. What survives is the shape of the argument, which every later reverse-engineering claim has inherited: see Technology Seeding Hypothesis.
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The Day After Roswell · Arthur Trudeau · Foreign Technology Division · Roswell Incident 1947 · Technology Seeding Hypothesis · Majestic 12 · Philip Klass · Kevin Randle · Nikola Tesla · Air Intelligence Study 203 · Project Corona