Whistleblower or witness

Philip Corso

1997-01-01year known, day not recorded

Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who claimed in his 1997 book "The Day After Roswell" that the crash was real and recovered technology was secretly reverse-engineered, indirectly leading to fiber optics, lasers, integrated circuits, and Kevlar. Claimed a covert retrieval group was assembled under CIA first director Roscoe Hillenkoetter's leadership.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "roswell". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

None of this entity's 4 connections has a source you can open. 1 carries no citation at all.

4 connections

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← John Alexander names a source we do not hold

organized his Roswell interview at NIDS

NIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
← Jacques Vallee names a source we do not hold

interviewed him on Roswell claims

Philip Corso, The Day After Roswell (1997)
→ Roswell Incident names a source we do not hold

claimed in 1997 book the crash was real

Roswell case histories; Berlitz & Moore, The Roswell Incident (1980)
→ Roscoe Hillenkoetter nothing behind it

claimed a covert retrieval group was assembled under his leadership