Crash at Corona: The U.S. military retrieval and cover-up of a UFO - Hardcover

Friedman, Stanton T.; Berliner, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557784493 ISBN 13: 9781557784490

Publisher: Paragon House, 1992

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Long-awaited report by Friedman, a nuclear physicist and well- known UFO buff, and Berliner (Want a Job? Get Some Experience. Want Experience? Get a Job, 1978) on the most controversial UFO case in US history: the purported crash of a saucer, complete with aliens, on July 3, 1947, near Corona, New Mexico. The ostensible crash and subsequent government coverup have received much attention over the years, notably in a 1980 bestseller by Charles Berlitz (Roswell Incident) and a novel by Whitley Strieber (Majestic, 1989). What do Friedman and Berliner add to the tale? High melodrama, with tinges of 1950's sci-fi and Red-menace movies (``Man had just come face to face with beings from another world,'' the authors declaim, said encounter being buried by ``brilliant covering-up by the entire American government''). Lots of reports from first- and second-hand witnesses, who remember seeing alien corpses and handling bits of mysterious, hieroglyphic-covered metallic foil. An intriguing theory of a second crash several miles away. A pointless description of the crash site today. Attempts to shore up ``documents'' about the crash (the so-called ``Majestic-12'' papers) that most UFO researchers reject as fakes. And last but not least, a subtext of embarrassing infighting among UFO researchers, who will win no awards for scholarly detachment. No great shakes, but a decent updating of Berlitz's report. Corona, New Mexico, still awaits its Schliemann, or at least its Jim Garrison; ufology still awaits its Homer. (Photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

One of the more credible books arguing the existence of UFOs, this account tells of the alleged crash of a "flying saucer" near Corona, N.M., on July 3, 1947. Nuclear physicist Friedman and Berliner, founder of the Fund for UFO Research, note that of the many people who collected the debris, not a single one failed to turn every last scrap over to the Army. They assert that in the wreckage were small, "humanoid" beings. The authors' arguments gain credibility as they report the paranoid reaction of the military, which, they claim, cajoled and threatened witnesses into silence, supposedly to protect the earth from space invaders. Most arresting of all is the testimony of those who handled the debris, who had no opportunity to compare notes, yet have described the materials--mostly consisting of a flexible metal-like substance, in some cases marked by characters resembling hieroglyphics--in almost identical language. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Oldtime UFO lecturer Friedman and aviation author Berliner have written the third book in a dozen years about a U.S. weather balloon that fell to earth in New Mexico in July 1947. Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore's The Roswell Incident ( LJ 9/15/80) turns the balloon into a crashed spaceship with four alien beings aboard. Kevin Randle and Don R. Shmitt's UFO Crash at Roswell (Avon, 1991) increases the number to at least six but adds little else to the myth. The present book, a clone of the other two, moves the crash to Corona, a small town 90 miles northwest of Roswell and adds a chapter on "MJ-12," an alleged super-duper top-secret government investigatory and cover-up operation, formed in 1952 and continuing today. The book is filled with "could be's" which become "probably's" that turn into "must have been's." There are plenty of interviews with children, nephews, neighbors, and others who were among the original "witnesses" of the debris (most of whom are dead), but nothing very believable is offered. Perhaps Friedman and Berliner think that if you repeat a fairy tale often enough, it becomes true. Skip this.
- Dave Summers, Holly Twp. Lib., Mich.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557784493
• ISBN 13: 9781557784490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 227