In 1945, Corso arranged for the safe passage of 10,000 Jewish World War II refugees out of Rome to the British Mandate of Palestine. He was the personal emissary to Giovanni Battista Montini at the Vatican, later Pope Paul VI, during the period when the " Nazi Rat Lines" were most active.

Disch 2000, pp.53–34, "Even the Roswell case [...] has its component of science-fictional fraud. Robert Spencer Carr became famous, briefly, in the '70s when, in a radio interview, he concocted the still-current story of aliens' autopsied and kept in cold storage at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio. Carr." a b Grossman & French 2017, "Why have UFOs changed speed over the years?" (Kottmeyer, Martin), pp.172–173"Fuller 1966, pp.87–88: "There have been, I learned after I started this research, frequent and continual rumors (and they are only rumors) that in a morgue at Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, lie the bodies of a half-dozen or so small humanoid corpses, measuring not more than four-and-a-half feet in height, evidence of one of the few times an extraterrestrial spaceship has allowed itself either to fail or otherwise fall into the clutches of the semicivilized Earth People."

Problem is that Frank G. Wisner (not "Wiesner") had been hospitalized and replaced as top CIA covert operator nearly three years earlier in August 1958, first by an acting covert operations director Richard M. Helms and then by Wisner's permanent replacement, Richard M. Bissell, on January 1, 1959. Thus Bissell was the actual CIA Chief of the Clandestine Service (or Deputy Director for Plans) serving in 1961 at the time alleged in Corso's tale.These beliefs have contributed to the spiritual significance attributed to the Roswell incident. There are other beliefs that do not specifically refer to the Roswell incident but include extraterrestrial beings, such as Xenu in Scientology. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Little Green Men"/"The Sword Of Kahless" ". TV Club. January 17, 2013. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021 . Retrieved April 18, 2021. On December 19, 1979, Marcel was interviewed by Bob Pratt of the National Enquirer, and on February 26, 1980, the tabloid brought large-scale attention to the Marcel story. [64] [65] On September 20, 1980, the TV series In Search of... aired an interview where Marcel described his participation in the 1947 press conference: [66]