Part 1 argued that Corso has a genuine institutional kernel and an account that cannot carry its own weight. He was a real intelligence officer who ended his career in the Army’s foreign-technology office, inside a military that really did run recovery, transport and exploitation channels pointing at Wright-Patterson. But that was not the Air Force organization that received Blue Fly material; his manuscript, Dawn of a New Age, is hedged and inconclusive where the published book is categorica...

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...

In 1967 Jack D. Pickett, who was the publisher of an Air Force news letter for MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, was asked to do a story documenting vintage experimental aircraft. While looking around the base salvage yard he spotted four circular-wing, saucer-shaped aircraft which he took an extreme interest in. He was told that these craft had been operational and had even nearly achieved spaceflight. When he asked why they had been relegated to the scrap heap, he was told that the...

Part 1: Retrieval, Funding, Selection, and Corporate Custody For decades, skeptics have asked a reasonable question: If the United States recovered non-human technology, how could a secret that consequential survive for 80 years without presidents, senior military leaders, or Congress discovering it? One possible answer is that “the government” is not a single, unified entity. A sufficiently compartmented program could distribute its operations across intelligence agencies, special-mission un...

The debris trail from Marcel to Wright Field—and where the Battelle theory breaks down Ask the average person about Roswell and they will picture an intact saucer, alien bodies, autopsies, Majestic-12 documents, and a conspiracy spanning generations. Most of that emerged decades after 1947 through disputed witnesses, anonymous sources, and documents of questionable authenticity. Removing the weakest material does not make Roswell disappear. It leaves a smaller and potentially more defensible...

Part 1 argued that Corso has a genuine institutional kernel and an account that cannot carry its own weight. He was a real intelligence officer who ended his career in the Army’s foreign-technology office, inside a military that really did run recovery, transport and exploitation channels pointing at Wright-Patterson. But that was not the Air Force organization that received Blue Fly material; his manuscript, Dawn of a New Age, is hedged and inconclusive where the published book is categorica...

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...

Ask the average person about Roswell and they will probably picture an intact saucer, alien bodies, autopsies, Majestic-12 documents, and a vast conspiracy spanning generations. Most of that elaborate story emerged decades after 1947 through disputed witnesses, anonymous sources, and documents of questionable authenticity. But removing the weakest material does not make Roswell disappear. It leaves a smaller and potentially more defensible mystery: Military personnel recovered unusual debris,...