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The son of a US Army intelligence officer who said technology such as lasers and microchips came from aliens is to place more of his father's claims on the internet.

Before he died, Lieutenant Colonel Philip J Corso published a book called The Day After Roswell, in which he claimed to have secretly passed on alien hardware from a crashed UFO to private companies in the 1960s.

His son Philip Corso Junior says his father's book contains 10% of the whole story, which begins with the crash and recovery of a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. He now intends to tell it in full on his new website corsofiles.com.

In his book, Corso, who died aged 83, says that, as head of the Foreign Technology desk, he was ordered to leak debris from the Roswell UFO crash to certain US defence contractors but was unable to tell the companies where the materials had come from.

The result, according to The Day After Roswell, was a "quantum leap" in American technology which gave the US a decisive edge over the Soviet Union.

In addition, he claims Ronald Reagan's Star Wars initiative was a cover for a plan to defend against threats from aliens, Florida Today reports.