Eric Davis asks George H.W. Bush about Corso
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| Date | 26 March 2004 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Eric W. Davis, Philip J. Corso, Jacques Vallée, Harold Puthoff |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 155 |
| Year | 2004 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2004 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 12 |
According to Jacques Vallée's published journals, physicist Eric Davis said in 2004 that he had asked former President George H. W. Bush about Philip Corso's claims in The Day After Roswell, including whether Corso might have mistaken Soviet technology for alien technology. Two decades later Davis gave a fuller account of a conversation with Bush in the 2025 documentary The Age of Disclosure.[1][2][3]
Background
The Day After Roswell (1997), credited to retired Army officer Philip J. Corso and ghostwritten by William J. Birnes, claimed that Corso had helped feed technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash to U.S. industry while serving in the Army's Foreign Technology Division. It reached the New York Times bestseller list, but critics including Philip Klass, Kevin Randle, Karl Pflock and Brad Sparks documented factual errors and impossible chronology, and Sen. Strom Thurmond, who wrote its foreword, said he knew of no such cover-up. The Guardian later listed it among the top ten literary hoaxes.[2]
The account
Bush had been director of Central Intelligence in 1976–77, making him a natural person to ask. The journal entry, dated by the testimony to 26 March 2004, records Davis's account of the question but no substantive answer from Bush, who never commented publicly on Corso.[1]
The 2025 claim
In The Age of Disclosure, released on Amazon Prime in November 2025, Davis — a former scientific adviser to the Pentagon's AATIP program — said that Bush had privately told him in 2003 about a 1964 incident at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, in which three craft approached the base, one landed and a non-human being interacted with Air Force and CIA personnel. Davis said Bush told him that when he asked for more details he was told he had no "need to know". No evidence was offered for the account.[3][4]
Assessment
Both accounts come only from Davis. Bush died in 2018 and never spoke publicly about either conversation.[1][3]
People and topics
- Eric W. Davis — Physicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
- Philip J. Corso — Army officer who claimed in The Day After Roswell that he seeded alien technology into industry.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- The Day After Roswell — The Day After Roswell
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
On the Timeline
- Four "iron post" sources (6 March 2004) — A consultant tells Vallée that four trusted insider sources back Puthoff and Davis.
- DIA source notes on fake MJ-12 papers (2004) (26 March 2004) — Davis receives notes from a DIA source about fake MJ-12 papers and a secret project.
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References
- Jacques Vallée, *Forbidden Science 5: Pacific Heights* (journals 2000–2009), Amazon · amazon.com · archived copy
- The Day After Roswell — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Did former US President George Bush have knowledge of 1964 alien encounter?", WION (Nov 2025) · wionews.com · archived copy
- "President George H.W. Bush knew of 1964 alien contact with humans in New Mexico: documentary", Ground News · ground.news · archived copy
- Forbidden Science — the journals of Jacques Vallée (Anomaly Archives) · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Forbidden Science series — Anomalist Books · anomalistbooks.com · archived copy
- The Day After Roswell — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.com · archived copy
- Brad Sparks's review — Skeptical Inquirer (PDF) · cdn.centerforinquiry.org · archived copy
- Stanton Friedman's review of The Day After Roswell · medium.com · archived copy
- Philip J. Corso case file — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- The senator and the UFOs (Thurmond withdraws Corso foreword) — Government Executive, 1997 · govexec.com · archived copy
- The Day After Roswell — Publishers Weekly review · publishersweekly.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Philip J. Corso — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Operation Paperclip — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Holloman Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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