I have to say that this is a most entertaining read. It is far from good literature, but as a science fiction or fantasy novel, it is quite entertaining. I found the first part of the book most intriguing when Corso writes of the probable sequence of events during and immediately following the recovery of the crash debris.
I did read many reviews of this book online and also Stanton Freidman’s comment on this as well (see: http://stantonfriedman.com/).
The bottom line is this: This book is a good read, but not because I believe Corso’s opinions. It is fun to read. I read it in just a couple of days. The other bottom line I need to state is that I think this book has both fact and fiction or if not fiction, at least an opinion from a limited perspective, ie: Corso’s. Based on Corso’s background, I think he wrote this book as a last gesture of loyalty and obedience to his government. I mean to say it is probably fact mixed with disinformation. Of course I could not prove my way out of a paper bag. I just have this feeling.
His take on what happened and what evolved from it is intriguing but I get the sense that in spite of his position he had very limited access to the whole story so to speak. For example, he often emphasizes that the aliens were hostile, or at least were considered hostile by the military. Yet in the Disclosure Project’s opinion, the aliens are assuredly NOT hostile. Corso fails to indicate any awareness (unlike the Disclosure Project) that there were more than one species of alien. The Disclosure Project press conference at the National Press Club in May of 2001 has one witness stating that there are over 57 species (according to Sergeant Clifford Stone of that same conference) of aliens and that only some of them were hostile. How could this escape Corso’s attention or comment?
Corso also claims that the alien body he viewed in the transparent coffin had four fingers (he could not see a thumb) yet later he speaks of six fingers. He also claims that no food preparation areas, no food or food storage areas, nor any bodily waste disposal areas were found on the crashed ship. He speculates that it was maybe because it was just a scout ship with home base nearby either in the form of a mother ship.
He speaks of the autopsy reports and of the lungs. He speculates they were just robots or clones (maybe biological bionics robots). I think (I am not a biologist) that if something has lungs, it eats. Otherwise why would you need lungs if not to oxidize or at least metabolize some sort of fuel? But never mind.
I found his method of introducing alien technology intriguing but unconvincing. I was also left wondering about how his history of the cold war and how everything that happened was a cover for countering the alien invasion threat militarily. Nothing I can verify that’s for sure.
The first thing I noticed even before I started reading the book was how unimpressed I was with the Senator’s forward. At first I thought it was cool that a Senator would write a forward about UFO’s. On reading the forward I readily noted that the Senator did not even make an oblique reference to UFO’s or Roswell in his forward. I later learned that subsequent editions of the book had withdrawn the Senator’s forward at his request. (I did not yet verify this).
In short, my conclusion is that this is a book with some bite to it but probably has a lot of disinformation in it as well. In other words, this book has no value as a serious UFO research or disclosure book. That’s too bad since I was looking forward to this, having seen Corso’s testimony in the Disclosure Project websites and in some videos you can find on YouTube. Makes me wonder about the rest of the “evidence” put forth by this project. See http://disclosureproject.org. You can search for Corso there if you want. You need to make a small contribution if you want access to some of these documents. When I made mine it was a year or so ago and it cost me $5.00.
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