After joining the Army in 1942, Corso served in Army Intelligence in Europe, becoming chief of the US Counter Intelligence Corps in Rome. On May 29, 1987, a team consisting of Friedman, Moore, and television producer Jaime Shandera released the "Majestic Twelve documents". On December 11, 1984, Shandera had received the documents in the mail from an unknown source. [94] The MJ-12 documents purported to be a 1952 briefing prepared for President Eisenhower. They have been called "version 2" of the Roswell story. [95] [96] In this variant, the bodies are ejected from the craft shortly before it exploded over the ranch. The propulsion unit is destroyed and the government concludes the ship was a "short range reconnaissance craft". The following week, the bodies are recovered some miles away, decomposing from exposure and predators. He was working at the Foreign Technology Desk of Army Research and Development, but instead of working with German or Russian technology he says it was extraterrestrial in nature.

The Twin Falls hoax, with its nationally published image showing a bemused army officer holding a disc-like object of mundane construction, has been called the " coup de grâce of press coverage" on the 1947 flying disc craze. In the days following the story, flying disc "press accounts rapidly fell off". [41] In June 2020, then-President Donald Trump, when asked if he would consider releasing more information about the Roswell incident, said "I won't talk to you about what I know about it, but it's very interesting." [189] After the Scully debacle, tales of crashed saucers faded from UFO circles for decades. [35] Aztec tale revived (1966–1977)Harding, Thomas (May 13, 2011). "Roswell 'was Soviet plot to create US panic '". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011 . Retrieved February 6, 2013. The teenage Chatterton had been writing faux-medieval poems since he was 12. In 1769, desperate to have his work published, he cashed in on the vogue for literary antiquity by touting his verse as the work of a 15th-century monk. The hoax was discovered, and he killed himself before his 18th birthday; but he achieved his longed-for literary immortality as the much-beloved "marvellous boy" of the Romantic movement. Tsoukalos of Legendary Times asks: “Is it possible that we, by doing that, signalled aliens out there.”

Corso again fraudulently inserts himself into history by alleging that as the Army Foreign Technology czar in charge of Roswell he helped President Kennedy decide to send a man to the moon. Corso alleges that he worked on a moon base plan called Project Horizon to help keep the ET's at bay, which plan he urged on Attorney General Robert Kennedy in a pers

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Rhodes, Richard (June 3, 2011). "Annie Jacobsen's "Area 51," the U.S. top-secret military base". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 10, 2015 . Retrieved November 10, 2015. Beginning in 1978, Jesse Marcel publicly reported that the claims of a weather balloon had been a cover story. In 1991, retired USAF Brigadier General Thomas DuBose corroborated Marcel's admission. [74] In 1993, in response to an inquiry from US congressman Steven Schiff of New Mexico, [118] the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the United States Secretary of the Air Force to conduct an internal investigation. A 1994 Air Force report concluded that the material recovered in 1947 was likely debris from the then top secret Project Mogul, a military surveillance program employing high-altitude balloons (a classified portion of an unclassified New York University project by atmospheric researchers [119]). Another poet cashing in on the primitivism craze, James Macpherson wowed the literary world in the 1760s with fragments of a third-century epic by the bard Ossian, which he had "translated" from the Scottish Gaelic. Goethe and Napoleon were fans, but Samuel Johnson was sceptical from the start. It took until the end of the 19th century for the verse to be definitively declared an invention. Peebles, Curtis (March 21, 1995). Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth. Berkley Books. ISBN 9780425151174– via Google Books. Wright, Susan (August 15, 1998). UFO Headquarters: Investigations On Current Extraterrestrial Activity In Area 51. St. Martin's Publishing Group. p.39. ISBN 9780312207816– via Google Books.