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Body, Mind & Spirit Ufos & Extraterrestrials

The Roswell Legacy

The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site

by (author) Jesse Marcel & Linda Marcel

foreword by Stanton T. Friedman

Publisher
Red Wheel Weiser
Initial publish date
Sep 2008
Category
UFOs & Extraterrestrials, Personal Memoirs
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781601630261
    Publish Date
    Sep 2008
    List Price
    $21.95

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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).

About the authors

Jesse Marcel, Jr., MD, received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Louisiana State University and specialized in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat after completing a residency at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1962 to 1971 and in the Montana Army National Guard from 1975 to 1996. He currently works as a doctor at the VA Hospital in Ft. Harrison, Montana.

Jesse Marcel's profile page

Linda Marcel is a retired nurse, the mother of two of Jesse's children and the stepmother of one, the grandmother of 10 children, and a breast-cancer survivor.

Linda Marcel's profile page

 

Stanton T. Friedman is a nuclear physicist who worked on a wide variety of advanced, classified nuclear systems for major industrial companies. He began the civilian investigation of the Roswell Incident; wrote Flying Saucers and Science and TOP SECRET/MAJIC; and coauthored Crash at Corona, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, and Science Was Wrong. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs. Friedman resides in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Educator and sociologist Kathleen Marden is Betty Hill's niece and trustee of her estate. She has all of Hill's papers and correspondence, and has transcribed the tapes of the Hills' hypnosis sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin Simon. Marden has also met with the numerous scientists who investigated the case. For the past 10 years, she has served on the Board of Directors of the Mutual UFO Network, the largest International UFO organization and as director of Field Investigator Training for MUFON. Marden lives in Stratham, New Hampshire.

Stanton T. Friedman's profile page

Editorial Reviews

"The world has waited a long time for the inside scoop on Roswell. We need more information from those directly involved, and this book provides a good deal of important new material." --Stanton T. Friedman, nucelar physicist

Reviews

"Jesse Marcel, Jr., has finally set the record straight on his father's involvement with the Roswell crash. Major Jesse Marcel recovered pieces of the wreckage and showed it to his family, including the author, well before the military cover-up that continues to this day." --The Paranormal Report

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