Congress is once again preparing to hear testimony on unidentified craft, reverse engineering, and recovered materials. Whistleblowers are emerging, legislation is being written, and the public appetite for answers is stronger than it has ever been. Yet nearly three decades before this wave of disclosure, a decorated Army officer laid out claims so extreme that even today they dwarf much of what is being said in Washington. His name was Colonel Philip J. Corso, and the resurfacing of his long-hidden testimony has reignited one of the most explosive stories ever tied to the UFO question.

Colonel Corso’s book The Day After Roswell, published in 1997 on the 50th anniversary of the Roswell crash, stunned readers with direct allegations that alien wreckage had been recovered and seeded into private industry through Pentagon channels. According to him, technologies such as night vision, fiber optics, and advanced materials were not merely inventions of human genius but were derived from the wreckage of nonhuman craft. Corso’s account described an organized program where fragments of advanced hardware were disguised as Soviet in origin and handed over to major corporations and labs under the guise of competitive research projects.

At the time, the book became a bestseller and made Corso a household name in the UFO field, but it was also dismissed by critics as an embellished work that could not be substantiated. What the public did not know was that years before the book was ever published, Corso had sat for long interviews with journalist George Knapp and later with scientists and investigators tied to Robert Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science. Those recordings were quietly archived and never released. Until now.

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