The Roswell Incident, July 1947: Part Two

Even if you have relatively little or just a casual acquaintance with UFOs, you’ve no doubt heard of the alleged 1947 UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico. If you’re a serious UFO buff, then Roswell is probably something you have well and truly researched. IMHO, there is a case to be answered here, that to date has not been answered satisfactorily about what really happened in early July, 1947.

Dateline, Roswell, New Mexico, July, 1947:

Continued from yesterday’s blog…

But wait, there’s still more! After Marcel (Senior) retired from the military, he went public with his side of the story – weather balloon? Not a snowball’s chance in hell. His son (Jesse Marcel, Junior), 11 years old at the time daddy (JM, Senior) woke him up, ultimately became a medical doctor and also a career military officer. But he too has now spoken out publicly and written about his, and his father’s encounters with what they both termed not-of-this-world technology. Marcel (Junior) remembers vividly that night and that material from the crashed disc collected by his father.

You can find relevant interviews with (now the late) Jesse Marcel (Senior), and his son, Dr. Jesse Marcel (Junior) on YouTube.

The Roswell AAF base commander (Colonel William Blanchard) was never reprimanded or disciplined for ordering the ‘crashed disc’ press release. In fact he eventually rose to the rank of that of a four-star General.

The First Lieutenant, Walter Haut, who actually issued that press release, also issued a death bed affidavit attesting to the accuracy of the actual crashed disc (not weather balloon) explanation to the Roswell event. That affidavit can be found on the Internet at the following address: (http://roswellproof.homestead.com/index.html). 

One large factor in the Roswell story is the alligations of official governmental cover-up at the highest levels. This actually makes quite logical sense. If you come into possession of advanced extraterrestrial technology, you’re not going to share that with anyone, not even your closest allies, as many times in the history of our civilization, your ally today is your enemy tomorrow. That aside, once you decide to withhold that titbit of information, you’ve painted yourself into a corner. It becomes very awkward, in any sort of diplomatic sense, to have to admit later on down the track that you withheld something from your closest allies. It’s better just to keep your collective mouths firmly shut. 

Finally, why, after over six decades on, if the Roswell incident has been so satisfactorily explained by the powers-that-be, is the issue, the explanation, their explanation, still something that’s topical and being debated.?

Roswell has taken on such a life of its own that it has featured not only in a novel (see Strieber below), but as a TV series “Roswell” as well as the starting point for another “Taken”, as well as a “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” episode. The film “Independence Day” featured the Roswell incident, as did, obviously, the made for TV film titled “Roswell: The UFO Cover Up”.

Further readings:

Berliner, Don & Friedman, Stanton T.; Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of A UFO; Paragon House, New York; 1992:

Berlitz, Charles & Moore, William L.; The Roswell Incident; Grosset & Dunlap, New York; 1980:

Carey, Thomas J. & Schmitt, Donald R.; Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up; Career Press, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; 2007: 

Corso, Philip J. & Birnes, William J.; The Day After Roswell; Pocket Books, New York; 1997: 

Eberhart, George M. (Editor); The Roswell Report: A Historical Perspective; Center for UFO Studies, Chicago; 1991:

Hesemann, Michael & Mantle, Philip; Beyond Roswell: The Alien Autopsy Film, Area 51, & the U.S. Government Coverup of UFOs; Michael O’Mara Books Limited, London; 1997:

Klass, Philip J.; The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup; Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York; 1997:

Korff, Kal K.; The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don’t Want You To Know; Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York; 1997:

*Marcel, Jesse (Jr.) & Marcel, Linda; The Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site; New Page Books, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; 2009:

McAndrew, James & Weaver, Richard L.; The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert; Headquarters United States Air Force, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC; 1995:

Moore, Charles B., Saler, Benson & Ziegler, Charles A.; UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of A Modern Myth; Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC; 1997:

Randle, Kevin; Roswell UFO Crash Update: Exposing the Military Cover-up of the Century; Global Communications, New Brunswick, New Jersey; 1995:

Randle, Kevin D. & Schmitt, Donald R.; The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell; Avon Books, New York; 1994:

Randle, Kevin D. & Schmitt, Donald R.; UFO Crash at Roswell; Avon Books, New York; 1991:

Shawcross, Tim; The Roswell File; Bloomsbury, London; 1997:

Strieber, Whitley; Majestic; G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York; 1989: [Note: A novel and fictional account.]

*Key eyewitness document.

Addendum: Based on feedback from a colleague, “I was shocked to hear that a military officer took home some crash debris to show his family!  Shouldn’t that have been absolutely forbidden?  What about quarantine?  What about radioactivity?  Weren’t they concerned about such things in 1947?  There is the military secret issue too.”

Well, the behaviour of Marcel Senior isn’t odd at all. Say you find a leaf outside on the ground in your yard – no big deal. Now say you find a lump of gold – big deal! Well I predict you’d be running around showing your family, relatives, your neighbours, etc. the unexpected discovery, and any thought that it might also be radioactive or contaminated wouldn’t even dawn on you in your excitement. Well, if Roswell was a weather balloon, that’s your leaf – an everyday item. If Roswell was a crashed disc, that’s akin to your lump of gold – a totally unexpected discovery. If Roswell were just an ordinary weather balloon, there wouldn’t have been any valid reason to bring pieces of it home to show the wife and kids, and even if he did, there was no security issue involved. I mean Marcel Senior could have taken Marcel Junior to the Roswell base anytime to see a weather balloon – there was nothing classified about such an object. No, something really odd happened and the full story has yet to come out.