The Day After Roswell is Colonel Philip J. Corso's accounting of the controversial events that took place on a desert night in 1947. Roswell is the small, New Mexican town of renown where, purportedly, a UFO crashed into terra firma, scattering debris and extra-terrestrial bodies over the desert floor like so much weird candy from a shattered pinata. If the notorious Area 51 can be likened to the ufologists' Holy Grail, then Roswell is akin to its Bethlehem, the place where it all started (in the dramatic, if not the actual, sense). According to Corso, he's been there from almost the beginning.