Philip Corso Revisited, Part 1 of 2: A Real Foreign-Technology Officer, a Plausible Wright Field Rumor, and a Reverse-Engineering Story That Does Not Survive Its Own Timeline

I no longer think the best way to read Philip J. Corso is either “everything he said was true” or “he invented the entire subject from nothing.” Corso really did work in Army intelligence and, late in his career, in the Army’s foreign-technology apparatus. The military really did have systems for recovering unusual foreign hardware and routing it to technical centers, including Wright-Patterson. There is also a contemporaneous paper trail showing that the Roswell debris was supposed to go to...