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.
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“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.
RIP Jesse. The truth is out there.
How does one navigate to the Memorial Wall?
Never mind...found it.
One of the wonderous things about this site is that
it puts extraordinary people in touch with extraordinary
people.
Rest in peace. Jesse.
Thx.
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.
RIP, sir.
R.I.P. fellow Freeper.
That was Jesse's dad in that famous picture. Freeper Jesse Marcel Jr. was 10 years old at the time of the Roswell incident.
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.
The photo with the debris is his father.
Memorial ping
Pinging the unidentified aerial phenomena list..
Rest in Peace Dr. Jesse Marcel!
(Freeper JesseAM was also a member of the UFO/UAP list.)
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://home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/Ramey.htm
Rest in Peace, Jesse Marcel Jr. ......
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