director of Central Intelligence (see Majestic 12). Among its tasks was to collect all information on off-planet technology. The US administration simultaneously discounted the existence of flying saucers in the eyes of the public, Corso says. According to Corso, the reverse engineering of these artifacts indirectly led to the development of accelerated particle beam devices, fiber optics, lasers, integrated circuit chips and Kevlar material. In the book, Corso claims the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or "Star Wars", was meant to achieve the destructive capacity of electronic guidance systems in incoming enemy warheads, as well as the disabling of enemy spacecraft, including those of extraterrestrial origin. Death Corso died of a heart attack on July 16, 1998. Gallery Personal Files His service number on his id card was 01047930 as shown on TV. See also Roswell Incident References Further reading External links - Obit - Death Philip J. Corso - About - Biography Philip J. Corso - Coast to Coast AM - Biography Philip J. Corso - Coast to Coast AM - William J. Birnes (interview) (Updated) Philip J. Corso Voice Stress Analysis reveals no deception Space Weapons as Defense - Nexus Magazine vol 13:2 - Michael E. Salla Ph.D The Korean War - Tackling the Tough Topics Issue #63 - Darryl Eberhart Phillip Corso Jr. talking about aliens and ufos Videos Disclosure Project - Extraterrestrial Contact and Close Encounter: Part 2 - 2001 Dateline (NBC) - - 1997 Coast to Coast AM - - July 23, 1997 1915 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American writers United States Army personnel of World War II United States Army personnel of the Korean War American UFO writers United States Army officers Ufologists Recipients of the Legion of Merit Warren Commission Roswell incident People from California, Pennsylvania Burials at Florida National Cemetery