Corso's book is very interesting. Just heard yesterday that it is spot on. And this came from someone who had his doubts originally.+ 3 more quotes (click to expand)Rocagnante said:
That's a blast from the past….I'll have to see if I still have that book somewhere. Read it in the 90's. Take those claims with a grain of salt. Storm Thurmond was lied to about the contents of the book when he wrote the forward about Corso. I think other Corso claims may have been proven false or exaggerated.
To me he's a good example of the conflict of interest when you claim to have knowledge of the subject and are also trying to sell books or TV shows about it. You have a financial incentive to exaggerate, leave out critical information or just flat out lie in order to sell more books and TV shows. It takes an already high burden of proof and makes it even higher for your claims.G Martin 87 said:Agreed. I learned my lesson with "The Monuments of Mars".
Strom Thurmond's foreword was pretty generic. It was the type of polite support you would expect a politician to write about a staffer.
Was Corso's book ghostwritten? The account is compelling and hard to put down, but quite self-serving at times. Some of the details he claims about the Roswell crash debris and occupants would have been new information in 1998, but have since popped back up recently. My suspicion is that this book is the only source for those rumors.
“Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960.