Thurmond Fooled By Ufo Follower

Sen. Strom Thurmond wrote the foreword for a new book about an alleged UFO cover-up after being led to believe the author, a former staffer, was writing an autobiography, the senator’s aides said Thursday.

“The Day After Roswell,” by retired Army intelligence officer Philip J. Corso focuses on the rumored crash of an unidentified flying object near the city of Roswell in the New Mexico desert in 1947.

Corso, with help from William J. Birnes, wrote that the government confiscated the UFO and gleaned secrets from it that led to advances such as laser technology, fiber optics, night-vision capabilities and the microchip.