Editing Roswell incident (section)

===''The Day After Roswell''===
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In 1997, retired Army Intelligence officer [[Philip J. Corso]] released ''The Day After Roswell''.<ref>{{harvnb|Clarke|2015|loc=ch.&nbsp;6, paras.&nbsp;13–15}}</ref> Corso's book combined many existing and conflicting conspiracies with his own claims.<ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|p=204}}</ref> Corso alleged that he was shown a purportedly nonhuman body suspended in liquid inside a glass coffin.<ref name="Baker-2024"/><ref>{{harvnb|Corso|Birnes|1997|pp=27, 32–34}}</ref> ''The Day After Roswell'' contains many factual errors and inconsistencies.<ref name="Klass 1998 1–5">{{harvnb|Klass|1998|pp=1–5}}</ref> For example, Corso says the 1947 debris was "shipped to [[Fort Bliss]], Texas, headquarters of the 8th Army Air Force".<ref name="Klass-1998-p1">{{harvnb|Klass|1998|p=1}}</ref> All other Roswell books correctly located the 8th Army Air Force headquarters at Fort Worth Army Air Field, 500 miles away.<ref name="Klass-1998-p1"/>

Corso further claimed that he helped oversee a  project  to [[reverse engineer]] recovered crash debris.<ref name="Klass 1998 1–5"/> Other ufologists expressed doubts about Corso's book.<ref>{{harvnb|Smith|2000|p=56}}</ref> Donald Schmitt openly questioned if Corso was "part of the disinformation" Schmitt believed was working to discredit ufology.<ref>{{harvnb|Goldberg|2001|p=227}}</ref> Corso's story was criticized for its similarities to science fiction like ''The X-Files''.<ref>{{harvnb|Clarke|2015|loc=ch.&nbsp;6, para.&nbsp;13}}: "If Corso's story sounded like the product of watching too much science fiction then perhaps it was. In the second episode of The X-Files, originally shown in September 1994, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully discuss the mysterious disappearance of a test pilot during a flap of UFO sightings near a secret airbase. The sceptical Scully asks Mulder 'Are you suggesting that the military are flying UFOs?' Mulder replies: 'No. Planes built using UFO technology.'"</ref> Lacking evidence, the book relied on weight provided by Corso's past work on the [[Foreign Technology Division]], and a foreword from U.S. Senator and World War II veteran [[Strom Thurmond]].<ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|pp=204, 207}}</ref> Corso had misled Thurmond to believe he was providing a foreword for a different book. Upon discovering the book's actual contents, Thurmond demanded the publisher remove his name and writing from future printings stating, "I did not, and would not, pen the foreword to a book about, or containing, a suggestion that the success of the United States in the Cold War is attributable to the technology found on a crashed UFO."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gerhart |first1=Ann |last2=Groer |first2=Ann |title=The Reliable Source |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/06/06/the-reliable-source/21f1e6ea-0dd1-447f-b6b7-6571ddd4d1ef/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=6 June 1997}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|pp=207–208}}</ref>