The Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site - Books

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Product Description
Does extraterrestrial life exist? Have alien beings actually visited Earth and, indeed, left clear traces of their visits?

One man has the answer...and his son can now break the silence.

The Roswell Legacy is the story of Major Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer for the 509th Bomber Group (famous for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan), and the first military officer to reach the scene of one of the most famous and enduring UFO events in the recorded history of mankind. This book docments the recovery of debris from the crash of an extraterrestrial craft and how the Marcel family became forever linked to the event. It details what the debris looked like, how it greatly differed from that of the "weather balloon" that was supposedly recovered, and the physical characteristics that prove it could have only come from a technology that was not available in the 1940s (or, perhaps, even now).

Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Good material but no style November 13, 2008
A powerful book, no doubt.
Despite all the documentation and facts in this book, Roswell remains a big question mark. It appears to me that ufologists are not doing the right thing. So many of them, so many books, so many appearences on TV shows, yet not even one single physical evidence. This is what this well-thought book is suffering from!

4 out of 5 stars

NICE INSIGHT November 5, 2008
FIRST OFF LET ME SAY GREAT BOOK. MARCEL JR. SEEMS LIKE A CREDIBLE GUY JUST LIKE HIS FATHER. THIS IS NOT YOU'RE TYPICAL ROSWELL ACCOUNT. YES THE AUTHOR GIVES YOU A ROUND DOWN ON HIS VERSION OF ROSWELL AND WHAT HE EXPERINCED. BUT THE BOOK DEALS MORE ABOUT THE MARCEL FAMILY BEFORE AND AFTER ROSWELL. YOU GET SOME INSIGHT ON WHO THEIR WERE AND ARE. HE TALKS ABOUT THE EFFECTS ROSWELL HAD ON HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND NOW HIS KIDS AS WELL. HE EXPLANS WHAT A MOGUL BALLON IS AND WHY THAT EXPLANATION JUST DOESN'T HOLD UP. HE SHOWS THE GOVERMENT IS FULL OF IT. HE SHOWS THAT THEY ARE INDEED HIDING SOMETHING FROM THE PUBLIC. BUT DID A FLYING SAUCER REALLY CRASH IN NEW MEXICO. WE CAN'T BE SURE. BUT SOMETHING STRANGE WAS FOUND IN THE DESERT, SOMETHING STRANGE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOME OF THE MARCELS. SOMETHING THE AUTHOR WOULD DESCRIBE AS 'UNEARTHLY'.

4 out of 5 stars

The Roswell legacy October 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The Book was interesting in most places and was repetitive by way of emphasis in some chapters. It needed the other book ("Day after Roswell") to be read first as a background to the story. There still remains the US govt's final view of the subject which essentially remains a mystery in the clouds of "its too long ago to worry about".
Essentially it is the story of the author's father and has some real though incomplete experiences nagging at the author seeking to express his unanimous belief in his fathers experience with the crashed UFO remnants.

3 out of 5 stars

True or Not True? March 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

The Roswell Legacy was a welcomed publication. It was nice to see a book by Major Marcel's son finally on the market. Though it did deal with family matters and family quite a bit, I found that it dealt with many of the personal problems with family members including the fact that both Major Marcel and his wife as Jesse states in the book - became alcoholics. He speaks also of the effect that the Roswell Incident and its many years of secrecy had on his entire family including his own children. He states that even to this day due to the Roswell Incident there are riffs in his family. My reading about the tragic family situations both with his own family and Major Marcel's touched my heart and I thought, "How sad this has happened to them." I immediately decided I would attempt to reach Jesse by phone and invite him for an interview on my Blog Talk Radio show. I wanted to help him reach out, tell his story, and also assist in vindicating his Father in some way. I was able to contact him and he agreed to do the interview on BlogTalk Radio along with his friend Stanton T. Friedman. I asked him if there was anything in his book he did not want to discuss. His repy was, "I don't think so." However, in the course of the interview, I found this not to be the case. There were several questions mentioned in the book that he chose either not to comment upon or just skirted the question completely. I let all that pass. For a few days after the show, I thought about 'Why did he answer the questions the way he did or not at all?, when his answers did not agree with the way they had been written in the book. I wound up doing a second show on BlogTalk addressing these concerns and reading from The Roswell Legacy the answers that should have been easy for him to give. I finally took both shows totally out of my archive section. If you would like to hear these shows, you can at BTR, Saturday, March 29th, 2008, 5 pm ET - The Charn Parker Show or download them from the archives anytime after the broadcast. I do think this was a good book, however, I question now the validity of what was written.

4 out of 5 stars

DEMOLISHES THE "MOGUL BALLOON" THEORY February 9, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Jesse Marcel Jr. has written a touching vindication of his father, Jesse Marcel, the Security Officer the military asked to look over the debris field on Mac Brazel's farm back in June of 1947. The author was an 11 year-old boy living with his parents near the military base at Roswell New Mexico, and he personally saw and touched parts of the debris as his father excitedly told him it was "not of this world."

The basic story is well known, and Jesse Jr does not provide anything beyond the known facts and research that anyone could do. But the book is a valuable contribution to the legacy of Roswell because the author, besides the fact that he was part of it, focuses on the elements that keep people from believing the debris was from a crashed space ship. Starting with what he sees as a denigration of his father. He shows us in great detail that his father, Jesse Marcel, was technologically astute and well-trained in all aspects of military radar and balloons. It is just not possible that he would not have recognized any kind of balloon in use by the military. The government has admitted that its first claim, that the debris was from a weather balloon, along with the infamous picture of Marcel with the "debris," was a falsehood and a cover-up.

But their more recent report on the Rosell incident claims that the debris was from Project Mogul, which was balloons sent high in the atmosphere to "listen" for evidence of Soviet nuclear testing. However, the author thoroughly researched Project Mogul and shows how this simply does not fit the facts. He states with certainty that the Mogul materials were nothing like what he saw in the family kitchen that night in 1947. He had a chance to personally examine some of the Mogul materials, so his opinion here is based on real knowledge. Beyond that, he researched which Mogul balloons were aloft at the time that could have landed on Mac Brazel's farm, and none of them fit. And beyond that, the debris field was much larger than what you'd get from a Mogul balloon, and, since the Mogul materials were ordinary, the military usually didn't even bother to collect downed balloons. So why, in the Roswell incident, did they scrape up every last piece of debris and have it flown, with armed guards, to Wright-Patterson?

The book is somewhat disorganized and unorthodox in its layout and organization, but I found the rather homespun approach an indication of its authenticity as the real thoughts of the author (and his wife too). No spin here, just an honest recounting of memories and what the incident did to the Marcel family. I was saddened to read that his father became more cynical and took up drinking excessively as he grew older, contemplating the years he had to keep quiet and listen to his government put out "facts" he knew to be false. In his later years, he did talk about it somewhat, including telling Linda Marcel (Jesse Jr's wife) that what he saw in 1947 was "not of this earth."

Everyone has their opinion and debunkers will always be with us, but Jesse Marcel Jr has kept faith with his father's belief that both the father and the son held in their hands pieces of something that came from "out there."

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