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.