Jesse Marcel, Sr's story and some critical evidence

(pages 61 thru 73 in the book)

Major Jesse Marcel, Sr. was the head of intelligence at the Army Air Field located in Roswell, New Mexico.  On July 7, 1947 Marcel was sent to inspect what was being reported as the crash of an unidentified object on a ranch seventy-five miles northwest of the base. After inspecting the crash site, Marcel stopped by his home to show his family what he had discovered. Jesse Jr. was only eleven years old at the time, but vividly remembers his father's excitement, and seeing and handling a foil-like material that his father said was scattered around the wreckage. It was shiny and paper thin, but could not be torn or cut. It also retained a memory, mysteriously unfolding each time his father tried to fold it. And then there was that beam of metal several feet long, which was covered with hieroglyphic-type writing and markings. It was indeed something that was not of this world.

Upon return to his Air base, Marcel's superior officer, Col. William "Butch" Blanchard,ordered him to fly the material to Wright Patterson Air Base in Dayton, OH, first stopping in Fort Worth, TX to show the strange findings to Gen. Roger Ramey,,,the head of the Eighth Army Air Corp.  Blanchard  ordered his public information officer, Lieutenant Walter Haut to prepare a press release stating that a "flying disc" had been recovered near Roswell, and the strange craft and debris were being flown to Wright-Patterson air base in Dayton, Ohio.  Haut passed the story on to all wires services, and within several hours it was the biggest story of 1947.

Gen. Ramey learned of the press release Blanchard had issued, and decided to telegram senior leaders in Washington, DC.  By the time Marcel arrived Ramey had  received orders back, to hold a press conference and release a cover story that the debris found near Roswell was that of a crashed weather balloon.

Marcel would be photographed (see photo right) holding the outer skin of a weather balloon. and the expression on his face tells the whole story.  Marcel was an expert on weather balloons, and knew that what he had inspected near Roswell was no weather balloon. From that date forward Marcel remained silent, never commenting publicly about what he saw, and the painful humiliation impacted his life until his death in 1986.

In a second photo, that appeared in the Fort Worth Telegraph, Ramey was seen holding a piece of paper. It has long been a mystery what was written on this paper that Ramey clutched in his left hand (see red box insert).

In 2001, UFO researcher and photography expert, David Rudiak obtained a copy of the original photograph, and began work to enlarge it and discern was written on the cryptic message in his hand. Rudiak's findings were staggering (click here).

From that date forward, and despite dozens of collaborating witnesses at the crash site, Major Marcel was forced to live a lie. He asked his family to never speak of the event for nearly 40 years. While he lay dying in 1986, the senior Marcel asked his oldest son to set the record straight, and for eighteen years, he too remained silent. 

in 2004 as retirement finally approached, while serving his last tour of duty in Iraq, Jesse Marcel Jr. decided to write his and his father's story.

More and more evidence and witnesses are coming forward every day. Isn't it time that the REAL EVIDENCE; the space craft, alien bodies and debris be released by our government?