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Roswell author who said he handled UFO crash debris dies at 76 (Jesse Marcel Jr, Freeper)
theguardian.com ^ | 8/28/2013

Posted on 09/01/2013 8:10:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Jesse Marcel Jr, who said he handled debris from the 1947 crash of an unidentified flying object near Roswell, New Mexico, has died at the age of 76.

Denice Marcel said her father was found dead at his home in Helena, Montana, on Saturday, less than two months after making his last trip to Roswell. He had been reading a book about UFOs.

Over the past 35 years Marcel appeared on TV shows, documentaries and radio shows, was interviewed for magazine articles and books and travelled the world lecturing about his experiences in Roswell.

His wife, Linda, said: "He was credible. He wasn't lying. He never embellished, only told what he saw."

Marcel's father was an air force intelligence officer and reportedly the first military officer to investigate the wreckage in early July 1947, when Marcel was 10. Marcel said his father brought home some of the debris and woke him up in the middle of the night to look at it, telling him it was something he would never see again.

His father maintained that the debris "was not of this Earth", Linda Marcel said. "They looked through the pieces, tried to make sense of it."

The item that Marcel said fascinated him the most was a small beam with purple-hued hieroglyphics on it, she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Montana; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: jesseam; jessemarcel; jessemarceljr; lindamarcel; marcel; obituaries; obituary; rip; roswell; ufo
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To: ari-freedom

“This story is all over the web but I don’t care about this UFO stuff. I do care that we lost a fellow freeper.”

Same here. I don’t give a damn about the UFO-alien crap. He was a Freeper, that’s it and it’s sad to lose one of ours.


21 posted on 09/01/2013 9:04:36 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: RoosterRedux

RIP Jesse. The truth is out there.


22 posted on 09/01/2013 9:07:01 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: wita

How does one navigate to the Memorial Wall?


23 posted on 09/01/2013 9:08:38 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: wita

Never mind...found it.


24 posted on 09/01/2013 9:10:25 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s at the bottom of the home page.

http://www.freerepublic.com/memorial/memorial.htm


25 posted on 09/01/2013 9:11:23 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: max americana

One of the wonderous things about this site is that
it puts extraordinary people in touch with extraordinary
people.

Rest in peace. Jesse.


26 posted on 09/01/2013 9:12:27 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: mylife

Thx.


27 posted on 09/01/2013 9:15:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: tet68

Correct. I didn’t even know that a Freeper was in a famous picture I’ve seen since grade school until today. R.I.P jesseam.


28 posted on 09/01/2013 9:16:20 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: RoosterRedux

29 posted on 09/01/2013 9:16:41 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: RoosterRedux

RIP, sir.


30 posted on 09/01/2013 9:16:46 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: RoosterRedux

R.I.P. fellow Freeper.


31 posted on 09/01/2013 9:17:26 AM PDT by fedupjohn (America...Designed by Geniuses...Now inhabited by Idiots..Palin 2016...)
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To: RoosterRedux

http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/dr-jesse-a-marcel-jr/article_1bb67ea4-12c8-11e3-b2dc-001a4bcf887a.html


32 posted on 09/01/2013 9:18:16 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: max americana
I didn’t even know that a Freeper was in a famous picture I’ve seen since grade school until today.

That was Jesse's dad in that famous picture. Freeper Jesse Marcel Jr. was 10 years old at the time of the Roswell incident.

33 posted on 09/01/2013 9:27:45 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I have been investigating UFOs for 30 years and was at one time a MUFON official. I met Jesse Marcel at a MUFON symposium years ago. He seemed pleasant, intelligent, and honest. Still, all my research suggests the debris at Roswell was from a then Top Secret Mogul balloon. Jesse Marcel was a young boy when his father supposedly brought the wreckage by to show him. I think it’s possible exposure to all the Roswell stories over the years altered his memory of actual events. I don’t think he was lying so much as recounting faulty memories. In any event we have lost a good man. RIP Dr. Marcel.


34 posted on 09/01/2013 9:32:30 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: max americana

The photo with the debris is his father.


35 posted on 09/01/2013 9:35:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Art Bell

Memorial ping


36 posted on 09/01/2013 9:44:53 AM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: ALASKA; ActionNewsBill; A knight without armor; albertp; aragorn; areafiftyone; aruanan; ...

Pinging the unidentified aerial phenomena list..

Rest in Peace Dr. Jesse Marcel!
(Freeper JesseAM was also a member of the UFO/UAP list.)


37 posted on 09/01/2013 9:48:31 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.{TaglineUsed w/SunkenCiv's permission.})
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1433146/posts

http://www.ufocasebook.com/rameymemo.html

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/05/general-ramey-and-his-memo.html

http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/pdf/16.1_houran_randle.pdf

http://www.roswellproof.com/

http://home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/Ramey.htm


38 posted on 09/01/2013 9:58:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Rest in Peace, Jesse Marcel Jr. ......


39 posted on 09/01/2013 10:02:05 AM PDT by Gator113
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whoops.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/pdf/16.1_houran_randle.pdf


40 posted on 09/01/2013 10:02:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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