In 1986, on his death bed, retired Major Jesse Marcel told his son; "You must tell the world the truth about Roswell. When the military no longer has a hold over you and your family, please set the record straight!"Major Jesse Marcel was the head of intelligence at an Army Air Field located at Roswell, [New Mexico]. On July 7, 1947 Major 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, Major Marcel's superior officer, Col. William "Butch" Blanchard, ordered him to fly the material to Wright Patterson Air Base in Akron, OH, first stopping in Fort Worth, TX to show the strange findings to Gen. Roger Ramey,,the head of the Eighth Air Force. When Ramey learned that Blanchard had issued a press release stating they had recovered a "flying disc," and that it was being flown to Wright-Pat, Ramey was livid, and immediately called a press conference. Marcel would be photographed (see photo right) holding remnants of a weather balloon, and was forced to tell the media that these were his only findings at Roswell. From that time on, and despite dozens of collaborating witnesses at the crash site, Major Marcel was forced to live with that lie the rest of his life.

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so saruman is this majors son only coming out about it now or what?

Great! can't wait to put my hands on this book!

I'm struck by one aspect of all this in particular, that being the level of professionalism and accomplishment of Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. It seems unlikely that someone who has had a distinguished military career and medical practice would involve himself something he knew to be dishonest. There's no way for any of us to know for sure that he's being truthful (or simply mistaken in his memories) but it is certainly compelling none the less. I, for one, will be reading his book as soon as I can obtain a copy.

I can't imagine being in this situation and not saving a bit of the material for myself and my family. That just doesn't ring true as humanly possible. Maybe this is why I couldn't be army material...

I don’t know if it would be possible to him to keep something hidden., even with his family
I was from the army and when something “strange” happens and we are involved, they do not allow us to keep anything, they “force” us to keep it secret, etc.
I think if that someone get involved in something like this and the army don’t want it to be public, they would do many things to prevent any leak of information…

i knew it

It's hard to know for certain. There's so many versions of the "Truth" out there, how can anyone know which one is the real story? I would imagine if the real truth was to come out against the military's wishes, well, I can only imagine what will be done to keep the Roswell secret, a secret.

One of the instant realizations made by people who find out about a new book about Roswell instantly assume that it will say there are no aliens, yet this may prove otherwise.

I'm sure that book will be a very interesting read Also, it would be incredibly narrowminded of humans to think that we are the only "living beings" in the universe... Whenever they do come/show themselves, I just pray that they'll come with peaceful intentions..

I agree Dewlanna - it is incredibly shortsighted. I don't want to say anything forsure on this one. But it makes sence that if they recovered an alien space-craft (that is, a small one) that they would try to keep it a secret as long as possible so that they could learn as much about the technology as they could before anyone else found out so they could get a leg-up on other economies... also, if the technology included some alternate source of energy, the US would stand to lose a substantial ammount of money that has been invested in the oil+gas industry... but it is all standard conspiracy hype. Never the less, it sounds like an interesting book!

It has been 60 years since the Roswell incident hit the airwaves and still, the Roswell cover-up remains in force.

Eventually, classified aircraft are revealed, and a number of classified aircraft have been revealed to the public over the last 5 decades, but what was it that crashed in 1947 to where the military feels compelled to continue the Roswell cover-up to this very day?