Summary of William J. Birnes & Philip Corso's The Day After Roswell

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#1 The night hugs the ground and swallows you up as you drive out of Albuquerque and into the desert. As you head east along 40 and then south along 285 to Roswell, there is only you and the tiny universe ahead of you defined by your headlights.

#2 The activity at Roswell increased over the next couple of days, until it looked like a steady stream of airspace violations. It was becoming more than serious. There was no denying that a traffic pattern of strange aircraft was emerging in the skies over the New Mexico desert.

#3 The first reports of strange radar blips were filed through intelligence channels on July 4, 1947. They were pulsating - glowing more intensely and then dimly - as tremendous thunderstorms broke out over the desert. The military response was put into motion within seconds: This was a national security issue, and they needed to find the object before anyone else did.

#4 The air controllers at the 509th Air Base had believed that they saw an aircraft go down. However, the crash site was actually discovered by a group of Indian artifact hunters who had seen a pulsating light overhead and heard a hissing noise. They followed the sound to a group of low hills just over rise.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822542372

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Insights on William J. Birnes & Philip Corso's The Day After Roswell

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The night hugs the ground and swallows you up as you drive out of Albuquerque and into the desert. As you head east along 40 and then south along 285 to Roswell, there is only you and the tiny universe ahead of you defined by your headlights.

#2

The activity at Roswell increased over the next couple of days, until it looked like a steady stream of airspace violations. It was becoming more than serious. There was no denying that a traffic pattern of strange aircraft was emerging in the skies over the New Mexico desert.

#3

The first reports of strange radar blips were filed through intelligence channels on July 4, 1947. They were pulsating - glowing more intensely and then dimly - as tremendous thunderstorms broke out over the desert. The military response was put into motion within seconds: This was a national security issue, and they needed to find the object before anyone else did.

#4

The air controllers at the 509th Air Base had believed that they saw an aircraft go down. However, the crash site was actually discovered by a group of Indian artifact hunters who had seen a pulsating light overhead and heard a hissing noise. They followed the sound to a group of low hills just over rise.

#5

When Steve Arnold, riding in one of the staff cars in the convoy of recovery vehicles from the 509th, reached the crash site, he saw that the craft was intact except for a split seam running lengthwise along the side. It looked more like a crash landing than a crash.

#6

The scene at the crash site was a microcosm of chaos. Technicians with specific tasks, such as medics, hazardous material sweepers, signalmen, and radio operators, were carrying out their duties as methodically and unthinkingly as if they were the Emperor Ming’s brainwashed furnace stoking zombies from the Flash Gordon serials.

#7

The medics loaded the little creature on a stretcher, and by the time the soldiers had set up a perimeter to block the site from the flashing lights and churning sand far in the distance, the officer had already ordered them to pack everything that could be packed on the two-and-a-half-ton CMC and drive it back to the base.

#8

By the time Dwyer’s field truck arrived at