ATTIP, Philip Corso, and the Roswell Crash

 

This week I was flying solo because there were a number of things that I wanted to talk about to wrap up the last year. Don Schmitt and I did some of that in the shows we completed just before Christmas, but we didn’t get to everything. So, I talked about AATIP and Disclosure, but I also wanted to address some of the hoaxes and charlatans that dot the UFO landscape… and yes, I said UFO instead of UAP. I’m not changing this because some bureaucrat decided to obscure the issue by creating still another new acronym for flying saucer. You can listen to the show here:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/48188703

Over the last several days, I have been exchanging emails, well, comments over on Rich Reynold’s UFO Conjectures blog. This had to do with Philip Corso. I suggested that Corso’s tales should be rejected because his book was filled with speculation and half-truths. I have addressed these things before but this time I suggested that one of the pictures in his book, that he captioned, “Lt. Col. Corso was never able to confirm the veracity of the following purported UFO surveillance photos, which were in Army Intelligence files as support material for the R&D project to harvest the Roswell alien technology for military purpose,” was in error.

The admitted fake that Corso thought might be the real thing.

Well, he might well have seen the picture in Army intelligence files, but it was also found in the Blue Book files, at least according to Ed Ruppelt and is an admitted hoax. In fact, the picture was printed in the 1966 Look special on UFOs with the admission by the photographer, Guy B. Marquand, Jr. He said, “I was twenty-one years old at the time and just having fun.” Although he admitted he had faked it, the picture is still accepted as authentic by some. It just seemed to me that Corso, if he was who he claimed to be, would have known this.

But what really brought all this to mind were two pictures sent to me in the last month or so. These were pictures of a wrecked craft that was claimed, by some on the Internet, to be the Roswell wreckage. One of the pictures seemed to show a jet engine and at no time has anyone I talked to mentioned a propulsion system that looked like a jet engine. The picture was obviously of an aircraft accident.

The alleged Roswell craft with a very terrestrial looking jet engine.

The second picture, which to me looked like a diorama that had been photographed, but was probably the same wreckage, wasn’t on the terrain that I’ve seen in that area of New Mexico. Sure, there are mountains and hills and canyons, but these particular hills didn’t have the flavor of the New Mexico landscape where the crash took place. Don Schmitt, Tom Carey and I, among many others, have been all over that area of New Mexico, and it simply doesn’t look like this.

The retrieval operation that looks to me like a diorama, but is probably from the
same aircraft accident.

I was reminded of the “Tomato Man” pictures that were circulated a couple of decades ago that were supposed to show one of the bodies of the alien flight crew. This picture was exposed as that of a human aviator killed in an aircraft accident. The body had been burned in the crash which gave it the alien look. This seemed to be the unnecessary exploitation of a man who had no connection to UFOs.

Anyway, I just wanted to clear up these points and to provide some evidence about what I had said.