Philip Corso Jr
Philip Corso Jr. is the son of retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso. He released his father's original unfiltered manuscript Dawn of a New Age in Italy in 2003 and in the United States in 2011, years after his father's death in 1998, specifically to correct inaccuracies and embellishments in the bestselling book The Day After Roswell that had made Corso Sr. furious during his lifetime.
| Role | Son of Philip J. Corso; manuscript publisher |
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Release of Dawn of a New Age
According to Corso Jr., he originally had no plans to release his father's manuscript to the public. However, after witnessing his father's distaste for The Day After Roswell, co-written with Bill Burns, Corso Jr. felt compelled to publish the original material to set the record straight.
Corso Jr. revealed that his father went through The Day After Roswell and highlighted everything he did not say or did not like in the published version. Corso Sr. gave up halfway through the book due to frustration with the numerous inaccuracies, creative liberties, and sensational details inserted by co-author Burns that were not present in the original manuscript.
Dawn of a New Age represents Corso Sr.'s pure, unfiltered account of his experiences with UAP crash retrieval materials, the U.S. Army Foreign Technology Division, and Technology Seeding programs — without the 130 additional pages of embellishments found in the bestselling book.
Preserving His Father's Legacy
By releasing the manuscript, Corso Jr. aimed to give researchers and the public access to what his father actually claimed and wrote, separate from the dramatized and potentially fabricated elements added during the commercial publishing process. This distinction has become critical for researchers attempting to evaluate the credibility of the elder Corso's testimony, as the manuscript allows direct assessment of his claims without the distortions introduced by Burns.