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Three Discrepencies in Corso Book

I read a copy of Corso's book as soon as it was released.  I'm
impressed by his credentials, found his story fascinating, and find it
hard to believe that someone with such a distinguished career would
publish a hoax at this stage of his life. However, despite wanting to
believe what he has to say, I've found a number of discrepancies in
the book that I would have to have resolved before I could invest any
credulity in his story.  These have not been brought out in any source
I have yet run across.  I'd like to bring them to your attention in
the hope that you might be able to assist me in contacting him in a
collaborative effort to get these problems resolved.

There are three glaring discrepancies, as follows.  First, and most
seriously, on p. 106 and again on p. 116 he mentions John Von Neumann
as someone whom he and General Trudeau intended to consult on the
integrated circuit chips found among the crash debris.  The plan to
consult this famous mathematician was formulated during Corso's tenure
at the Air Force Office of Foreign Technology R&D in 1961.
Unfortunately, Von Neumann died in Washington, D.C. in March of 1957.
The repeated explicit mention of the intention to consult Von Neumann
suggests more than a mere memory lapse.  To me, this discrepancy alone
calls Corso's whole credibility into question.

Second, he explicitly describes the alien bodies as having four
fingered hands in several places (e.g., p. 32), but then later on
writes this:

"And when reporters were actually given truthful descriptions of alien
encounters, they either fell on the floor laughing or sold the story
to the tabloids, who'd print a drawing of a large-headed, almond-eyed,
SIX-FINGERED (emphasis added) alien.  Again, everybody laughed.  But
that's what these things really look like because I saw the one they
trucked up to Wright Field." (p. 78)

Was he influenced by seeing the alien autopsy film?  This discrepancy
also seems serious and needs to be explained.

Third, with all the incredibly tight security reported to have
surrounded the crash retrieval and shipment of bodies to
Wright-Patterson AFB, he wants us to believe that he waltzed into this
unguarded building at midnight when he was at Ft. Riley, pried open a
crate containing an alien body in a glass storage cylinder, and was
never detected?

I have a few other problems with some of his assertions, but I'll let
the about three suffice for now.


Ufomind Index: Philip Corso