Secrets of Roswell

Jesse Marcel, Jr: In the summer of 1947, falling debris of an unknown object came to rest on the Foster Ranch outside of Roswell, New Mexico. I was 11 years old at the time and my dad was the base intelligence officer at the Roswell Army Air Field. This was the same base that was home to the 509th Composite Bomb Group, responsible for the ending of WWII with the atomic bombing of Japan. The base itself was privy to some of the most closely guarded secrets in the nation at that time. My father, Major Marcel, was deeply involved in the most sensitive intelligence at the base. The Roswell Legacy is the story of his involvement in the now famous event triggered by the crash of a mysterious object on the Foster Ranch. The timeline started when the ranch foreman, Mac Brazil, recovered portions of an unidentified flying object that he subsequently turned over to the local sheriff, who, in turn, contacted Colonel Blanchard, commanding officer of the air base at Roswell. Colonel Blanchard ordered my father, Major Marcel, and a CIC agent to the crash site for investigation and recovery of representative debris samples.

Thus the Roswell saga began.For years after my dad’s death I wanted to write a book confirming his credentials and relevance to the story. When stationed as a flight surgeon in Iraq and being subject to eminent danger from mortar attacks, I was reminded of my own mortality and thought it was high time to get the project underway. At one point, my computer with book notes was damaged by a nearby mortar strike so I took the precaution of protecting the computer with my flack vest if I was not wearing it at the time.

I figured that if my hooch took a direct hit at night at least my computer would survive even if I did not. I am hopeful that The Roswell Legacy will confirm the fact that my dad knew what he was talking about, and the fact he kept the secret of Roswell for over thirty years before divulging it primarily to a noted UFO researcher, Stanton Friedman. It is so frustrating to read articles written by close-minded skeptics who have the attitude that says, don’t confuse me with facts, my mind is made up. They have almost totally ignored his service record, which confirms his trustworthiness and honesty.

What they did with his service record was to take statements out of context to undermine his basic character.My father had no financial interest in the story, but thought it was high time to let the American people know the true circumstances of the Roswell event. To his dying day, he never wavered in his conviction that the debris recovered from that ranch so many years ago was, in fact, parts of an extraterrestrial craft. For all that was known in 1947, there was no such thing as extraterrestrial civilizations and certainly not visitations to Earth by them. It was a total surprise that there were such things as extraterrestrial civilizations and moreover, that they had the ability to cross the vastness of space to study more primitive civilizations such as ours. One of the biggest lessons learned from the event is the fact that interstellar space travel is possible and eventually, we will have the technology to be able to do so.

Having personally seen the crash site debris that my father brought home that night in 1947, I compared notes with my dad, in later years, and confirmed his feelings that this was certainly something not of human manufacture. He, as well as others, described characteristics that were not present in known metals and materials of the time. The Roswell Legacy goes into detail about the official position on the nature of the debris and the government’s effort to cover up what was actually found.The government first said that the debris was from a weather balloon, and then from a top secret project called Project Mogul. They alleged that the remains of a Mogul Balloon could have been confused with debris from what was called a flying saucer.

While there was some resemblance, the debris could not have come from a top secret project such as the Mogul Balloon. While we are far from being able to do so, The Roswell Legacy confirms how it is possible for interstellar space travel to actually be accomplished. There are theoretical possibilities of a space warp drive that can travel at any arbitrary velocity with the energy for the drive coming from the fabric of space itself. Like the old saying goes, the proof of principle has been established and all it takes now is the engineering. With the advancements we have made in the last 100 years, who’s to say we will not conquer space itself in the next 500 years? Breakthrough propulsion could come at any time, relegating chemical rocket travel to the back pages of ancient history. The skeptics love to keep parroting the old saw that because we cannot travel in interstellar space in any meaningful manner, no one else can either. How wrong they are!