UFO Files — Season 1, Episode 32: The Day After Roswell

Episode synopsis

Delve into the aftermath and repercussions of the 1947 Roswell incident, when many believe an alien spacecraft crashed in New Mexico. Based on The Day after Roswell by Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso and William Birnes, we explore if technologies like the laser, fiber optics, the integrated circuit, super-strong fibers, and night vision were developed with the aid of aliens. Career officer Corso claims his first alien encounter came on July 6, `47, while on late-night security rounds at Ft. Riley, Kansas, where he saw bodies of EBEs (extraterrestrial biological entities) inside shipping crates. In 1961, as Chief of Foreign Technology in the Army's department of Research and Development, his job included analyzing alien technology from Roswell, then introducing it into America's technological mainstream--thus, reverse-engineering alien artifacts. And we talk to many scientists involved at the time, who credit hard work, not alien contact, with these technological advances.

About UFO Files

UFO Files is an American television series that was produced from 2004 to 2007 for The History Channel. The program covers the phenomena of unidentified flying and submerged objects, close encounters with alleged extraterrestrial life, and alleged military and government cover-up conspiracies. In 2008, a following series called UFO Hunters premiered on the same channel.

More episodes from Season 1

• E0UFOs: Then and Now - Cause for Alarm
• E1Beyond The War Of The Worlds
• E2Brazil's Roswell
• E3Britain's Roswell
• E4UFOs: Then and Now - Aliens and Contact
• E5Deep Sea UFOs: Red Alert
• E6Area 51: Beyond Top Secret
• E7Mexico's Roswell
• E8Majestic Twelve UFO Cover-Up
• E9Out of This World
• E10Alien Engineering Part 1
• E11Alien Engineering Part 2