The Key to Conquering Space: Roswell (Yes, We Can Fly Like They Do)

Excerpts concerning spacecraft propulsion and space goals from Summary and Update: The Day After Roswell by Philip Corso. Colonel Corso and his superior, General Arthur Trudeau, realized that the retrieved alien craft had handed Earthlings a ticket to Star Trek's "final frontier." Secrecy of the Roswell artifacts remained tantamount because the Russians had infiltrated our CIA and wanted to steal our ticket.

"Corso realized that further study of the EBEs could lead to Humanity traveling more successfully and farther in space. He thought this should be the "overriding concern" for all of the artifacts."

The idea was to manufacture every part of the Roswell craft and put them all together again to make a fleet of "flying saucers."

"Corso ends Chapter Seven of The Day After Roswell by laying out the tremendous implications of harnessing the full gamut of the Roswell craft's technology and the nature of its pilots and crew. The EBEs dropped some of the keys to advanced technology, space travel, and genetic engineering right at our feet."

"All we had to do was pick them up and get to work unlocking the doors to a most intriguing future."

The Project Gets Under Way

"Corso begins Chapter Eight of The Day After Roswell by depicting an impressed General Trudeau eating up Corso's first official report that had focused on the aliens themselves and the prospects for extended space travel.

Looking so tired that the General thought Corso had stayed up all night writing it and commenting as such made Corso admit that is exactly what happened. Corso had been too excited and too proud of his work to make time for anything so insignificant as one man's sleep.

Trudeau needed more to maintain funding. Corso revealed his plan: work with the scientific experts who not only could be trusted but were free thinkers as well.

· Robert Sarbacher

· John von Neumann

· Hermann Oberth

· Hans Kohler

· Werner von Braun

· Wilbert Smith”

· "Corso explains what the government would not on that dark desert night on July 3, 1947, during a fierce lightning storm near Roswell, New Mexico. Either from the lightning, or the effects of a multitude of radar beams tracking it, or both, an alien spacecraft crashed, spewed out at least five aliens, two of them alive, and all of whom had been genetically engineered for space travel."

· "Rather than evolved lifeforms, the EBEs seemed more like humanoid robots that were engineered for space and, possibly, time travel."

“The engineers at Norton Air Force Base examined the craft and found that its underside proved to be covered with a very thin amalgam of the purest silver and most refined copper imaginable—perfect for maximum conductivity with little to infinitesimal resistance.

However, with current technology, they could not duplicate it.

Without the magic of a futuristic repulsion mechanism to power the craft, attempts to replicate its performance with other types of engines failed well into the 1960s.”