Corso was a retired Army colonel who had run a Pentagon foreign technology desk, and in 1997 he published this: A claim that he was handed a filing cabinet of debris recovered at Roswell in 1947 and quietly fed the pieces to American defense contractors, seeding integrated circuits, fiber optics, lasers, night vision, and Kevlar. Strom Thurmond wrote a foreword and then said he’d been misled about what the book was. It’s the origin of the reverse-engineering story that runs through everything since, and almost none of it holds up against the patent record. Your BS detector will be pinned, so read it as the founding document of a belief system rather than as history.
The Day After Roswell