Retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel who served on the National Security Council under Eisenhower. Late in life claimed in 'The Day After Roswell' (1997) to have seeded recovered Roswell debris into U.S. corporate R&D channels. The claims are contested.
Col. Philip Corso was a United States Army intelligence officer who served on President Eisenhower's National Security Council. He is famous for authoring the highly controversial 1997 book detailing his alleged role in a Pentagon reverse-engineering program. Corso's key contribution was his explosive claim that under military direction, he seeded recovered extraterrestrial technologies, such as fiber optics and integrated circuits, into American defense industries. 33 His narrative asserts that the extreme secrecy surrounding UAP was designed to hide the technological advantage from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. His account serves as the foundational text for the modern industrial reverse-engineering hypothesis.