Roswell author who said he handled UFO crash debris dies at 76 (Jesse Marcel Jr, Freeper)
theguardian.com ^ | 8/28/2013
Posted on 9/1/2013, 8:10:55 AM 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.
Wait, what? Marcel was a freeper? I talked to that guy several times in the past.
I read his book. Seemed like a straight shooter.
This was his profile page here https://freerepublic.com/~jesseam/