Phil Corso, Ed Teller & SDI

On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Don Ecker wrote:



PAOLA:  A popular misconception has been that somehow UFO Magazine
Publisher Bill Birnes -- Phil Corso's co-author and editor -- somehow
altered Corso's manuscript and made the aliens appear "hostile."

To All,

I asked Bill Birnes about the above and this is his reply.

Don Ecker

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Don:

I believe that Corso said the "belief was" or something to that effect 
that the laser weapons would hold the aliens at bay or at least pose 
something of a weapon that could inflict some damage. Whether true in 
fact or not, Corso is reporting on an underlying belief that this is 
what the weapons could do. That was the premise of that statement.

Bill

I have heard from a confidential reliable source at NSC level during 
Reagan Era that Ed Teller used that scenario as one reason, of several, 
to go ahead with SDI so that Corso should not be faulted on that one. It 
was an alleged Mission Objective not that we had such weapons in place 
ready to go.

My http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf

certainly points to the possibility that metric engineering by advanced 
ET's is not all that implausible.