Citizen's Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) got its signed affidavit from retired Col. Philip J. Corso, who swore under oath that he viewed alien bodies and autopsy reports in the course of his technology assignment with the Army in the early 1960s.
These statements, made in Corso's best selling book The Day After Roswell, will be used by attorney Peter A. Gersten, CAUS executive director, in his lawsuit against the Department of the Army. Corso furnished Gersten with a sworn affidavit re-affirming previous statements that he saw alien bodies in July, 1947 and had the opportunity to read their autopsy reports in 1961.
Filed March 25, 1998 in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix, the lawsuit is asking the federal court to direct the Army to provide Gersten and CAUS with any and all documents relevant to what the Colonel now swears under oath he saw and read.
"The CAUS lawsuit is, in and of itself, ground breaking" Gersten declared. "Now with the Colonel's affidavit, we should be able to defeat the government's attempt to have the lawsuit dismissed and go forward with the judicial disclosure process."
Perjury, or lying under oath, is punishable as a criminal offence usually incurring jail sentence for the person convicted. Colonel Corso is believed to be the highest ranking military officer, if not the only officer, to come forward and state under oath to have seen "extraterrestrial biological entities"(EBEs).
