Memoir by Philip J. Corso with William J. Birnes, Pocket Books 1997, reissued by Gallery Books in 2017. It claims that debris and a body were recovered near Roswell in July 1947, that Corso saw the body at Fort Riley two nights later, and that in 1961 he inherited a cabinet of artifacts at the Pentagon and fed them into defence contracts, producing the integrated circuit, the laser, fibre optics and Kevlar. Around that runs a second argument, that the Cold War doubled as budgetary cover for a planetary defence.
Its three appendices are real public documents: Project Horizon, the Twining Memo 1947, and Air Force Regulation 200-2 under a wrong heading. Everything load-bearing rests on Corso’s memory. Senator Strom Thurmond repudiated his foreword a month before publication. The book’s lasting effect is not any individual placement but the frame it established, which every later reverse-engineering claim has used: see Technology Seeding Hypothesis.
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Philip J. Corso · Roswell Incident 1947 · Technology Seeding Hypothesis · Project Horizon · Twining Memo 1947 · Air Force Regulation 200-2 · Foreign Technology Division · Majestic 12 · Project Corona · Gordon Cooper · Hermann Oberth