Posted on 05/31/2009 6:20:05 PM PDT by JoeProBono
GALENA, Ill. -- Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" -- made popular by Bing Crosby -- sat on the top of U.S. music charts on Jan. 4, 1947, out of this world so to speak. Several months later, Roswell, N.M. would become the epicenter of all things out-of-this world.
Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. was 11 when he was awakened around 1 a.m. on a July morning in 1947, when his father, Jesse Marcel, rushed into the family home. What he showed his wife and son changed the world forever.
Marcel Jr., the author of "The Roswell Legacy," was one of several guest speakers at this weekend's Out of This World UFO Conference at Eagle Ridge Resort and Spa in Galena.
Marcel Sr. was a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, a major, who was dispatched to collect debris from a crash at a ranch near Roswell.
"He realized this was something unique, not a radar target or an aircraft or anything that he had ever seen before," Marcel Jr. told his Jo Daviess County audience. "He knew what radar targets looked like."
Marcel brought the debris into Jesse Marcel Jr.
Jesse Marcel Jr. began a 38-year military career in the U.S. Navy and went on to retire as a colonel in the National Guard. He works as a specialist in otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat medicine) at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Fort Harrison, Mont.
the house which was on the way from the ranch to the nearby air base. He wanted his family to see it. It was placed neatly on the kitchen floor.
"He said, 'Look at this. I think this is parts of a flying saucer,' or words to that effect," Marcel Jr. said. "I thought, 'What's a flying saucer?'"
The debris contained no electronic components, like vacuum tubes, resistors or condensers.
"There's a lot of foil-like debris, you can't really describe it," Marcel Jr. said. "It had a strange quality to it, weird stuff. It was like Mylar -- nothing like what we had in 1947 -- or what we have now. One of the beams had writing, resembling geometric symbols."
Marcel flew the debris to Fort Worth (Texas) Air Field where its commander, Gen. Roger Ramey examined it.
"The cover story started at that point," Marcel Jr. said. "The cover story was this was a radar target -- nothing more, which obviously was ludicrous."
Marcel Jr. recalled that after his father returned from Fort Worth, he told his family never to talk again about what had happened.
That's the way it was for many years until Stanton Friedman, a UFO investigator and nuclear physicist, interviewed Marcel Sr. in 1978 and got the story going from there.
Marcel Jr. said the incident changed his life.
"It actually made me more religious because it made me realize that our creator created a vast universe with other people out there -- so we're not the only ones," he said.
"It's maddening that the government has not released this information ...," he said. "They will in due time, and I hope in my lifetime because I would like to tell people I saw this stuff and I told you so."
Thanks.
Came back early from the trip. Went to bed about 20:00.
Up again.
Wheeee.
Not in a mood to suffer clueless naysayer idiots much at all and certainly not gladly.
LOL.
Thanks.
how?
yes there is
“What unmitigated cluelessness.”
Sorry for disbelieving in your religion.
“”The Roswell Incident, for example does sound believable, but it has been shown that it was not a UFO that crashed in the desert”
“how?”
Overwhelming evidence to the contrary:
http://www.roswellfiles.com/storytellers/KentJeffrey1.htm
and they dress funny.
Not my religion at all.
It merely began as a hobby related to science fiction in my youth. Then I realized it had implications for Bible Prophecy events. Then I learned my relative had worked around them.
You are welcome to believe in whatever TYPE II ERROR likelihoods suit your type of chronic fantasies.
I’m trying to avoid paying attention to ignorance on the UFO threads much at all.
However, sometimes, it still is soooooo outrageously extensive that it begs a response and I can’t seem to resist.
Hasn’t been shown to be so.
Some clueless idiots, including one who formerly knew better, just claim such nonsense.
There’s plenty of mystery left. However, the basic facts are pretty well extensively documented. Some key ones, by a famous FREEPER.
No.
Jeffrey is also clueless even after all his research.
Maybe the powers that be needed another disinfo hack job.
Maybe he thought he could make money with such nonsense.
His whole book if silly.
He’s essentially making out a long list of solid folks to be liars.
LMAO! All this UFO stuff is funny! Silly people.
Let’s see what is illogical, idiotic, stupid and clueless.....
Believing that a highly advanced alien civilization traveled untold light years to visit a deserted field in NM, only to clumsily crash, OR.......
That a top secret weather balloon (Project Mogul)crashed there and the Air Force, unable to divulge the nature of the debris, said it was a routine weather balloon?
All Roswell has done is to help shine a brilliant spotlight on our Nations top secret Military facility whose function is to develop the most sophisticated weapons for the purpose of our National security!! But idiots and fools have been duped into believing that ALF is actually living there and helping our otherwise stupid scientist and engineers who probablby couldn’t build a model plane without ET’s help. Get a life!
It is human nature to want to believe sensational stories rather than the truth, like the Kennedy assassination. Every organization with the exception of the Girl Scouts, have been named as being involved in the Kennedy murder. No one wants to believe that a leftist insignificant loon acted alone.
As far as a FReeper with first hand knowledge....after reading some of the posts over the past several months by certain FReepers who....hate cops, advocate revolution, and hate Northerners, you’ll excuse me if I DON”T take his word for it.
SHOW ME FACTS INSTEAD OF POSTING LIES VOMIT.
“LMAO! All this UFO stuff is funny! Silly people.”
Haha. The wisest post I’ve read concerning this thread! Thanks.
I like your list of heros.
I think your . . . consideration . . .
of the UFO stuff is . . . grossly flawed, at best.
Cheers.
BTW, How long have you studied the topic?
How many 10’s of thousands of pages of testimony have you read?
So now naysayers are
labeling ignorance as wise?
Amazing.
Almost like liberals and their rubber dictionaries.
I’m a what, not a naysayer. Is this a regular thread topic? I thought it was a random UFO thread, didn’t know that a group of people meet. I’ve had some blowback from a couple of people who felt intruded upon, so my ‘pologies to the group. Thought the last portion of my post would make it clear it was satire, a historical comment on those who don’t believe or have an open mind about what they haven’t seen themselves.
No big sweat.
SORRY,
I’m not in the best mood . . . probably worst in years. But overcoming it . . . just not fully yet.
Sorry about the naysayer label when not true.
Sorry about missing the satire.
I have a problem discerning satire well and easily—my flaw—relates back to my mother’s double-bound communications which were purported to be jokes but usually had a nasty barb in them—at least one.
/s; /sar;
/Satire tags are wise on UFO threads particularly.
We get sooooo much clueless hideous tread trashing naysayer junk on these threads that some of us have hair-trigger responses to anything similar—particularly me.
Blessings,
The UFO ping list is between 160 and 200 people at last guesstimate.
Most are silent on the threads because they don’t like the idiotic derisiveness of naysayers who typically trash a UFO thread into oblivion.
I realize you
—are probably NOT a psychologist as I am
—have probably NOT met with 8-12 internationally famous solid serious UFO researchers on 2-3 continents.
—have probably NOT studied the topic since 1960 with anything in the same galaxy as a seriously fair-minded approach
—are probably more than a bit addicted to a TYPE II ERROR
—are probably more than a bit narrow, rigid, in perspective, attitude about such things . . .
—are probably above average in cheeky derisiveness toward folks who disagree with your construction on reality.
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