BookbelieverCase Study1997
The Day After Roswell
A retired Army colonel and former Eisenhower National Security Council staffer claimed personal stewardship of recovered Roswell debris and credited it with seeding Army reverse-engineering that produced integrated circuits, fiber optics, and Kevlar. A New York Times bestseller, it drew heavy criticism for documented factual and chronological errors.
- Author
- Philip J. Corso & William J. Birnes
- Published
- 1997
- Library rank
- #96
Why it matters
Ufology's most commercially successful and most factually disputed insider memoir, illustrating the genre's credibility extremes.