The
Day After Roswell - by Colonel Philip Corso
and William Birnes
| OB1 7-1-97:
Well I read the book and I want to believe it ... BUT it has some MAJOR
problems all of which
I won't reveal just now. There are a number
of
interesting possibly INTENTIONAL false statements. For what purpose
? ... plausible deniability ? .... the ability to slow this baby down if
it gets a little out of hand ? ... maybe ....
But let me give you just one BIGGIE ... Col. Corso states early on in his book that the United States was frustrated in its attempts at catching the Soviet Union's first artificial satellite ... "Sputnik". He stated that both the Navy's "WAC Corporal" and the Army's "Redstone" had suffered many failures and our prestige was at stake leading into 1958. Specifically on page 104 - "Early failures to lift off the navy's WAC Corporal and the Army Redstone had made laughingstocks out of the American rocket program ..." Now I should point out that this is very much akin to saying the Pilgrims arrived on the Nina, the Pinta, and the Enterprise. I mean the early history of both the successes and failures of the United State's early satellite program are well documented in even good encyclopedias. First the Navy's satellite program and failures... were centered around the Vanguard missile. The WAC Corporal on the other hand was in fact an Army missile project. The maligned by Corso, Redstone rocket in fact has never failed and launched its payload the "Explorer" on its first attempt ! He just didn't get any of this basic history correct. Just wanted to share that with everyone ..... now go read the book ..... its interesting and may be in large part true .... but why he or they made the above statement is quite interesting ..huh? I guess I better keep looking into this thingee... it gets more bizarre by the day. OB1 7-2-97: Ohhhh .... and what about the reference to the Lockheed B-2 Stealth Bomber ...... umm ya mean maybe the Northrop B-2 .... now what disturbs me is .. this stuff is too easy to look up on the net .. for gunnis sake !!! ........... OB1 7-3-97: ... and ummm what's this about making plans in 1961 for he and General Trudeau to visit the famous mathematician John Von Neumann .... .... John Von Newman was dead at
the time ... died in 1957 ... easy ta lookup
OB1 7-4-97:
... and ummmm page 32 and 78
OB1 7-11-97:
.... page 36 mentions Soviet "Backfire Bombers"
in 1957 ... and it wasn't until
That all said, I STILL HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK ...
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