Philip J. Corso (May 22, 1915–July 16, 1998) was an American Army officer.
He served in the United States Army from February 23, 1942, to March 1, 1963,[1] and earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Late in his life, in the book The Day After Roswell, Corso tells about how he was involved in the research of extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash.