| ROSWELL 1947 |
| PART 2 |
| Major Jessie Marsel filled up his staff car with debris from the site and decided to stop by his home on the way back to the base so he could show his family the strange debrie. Jessie Marcel Jr. the son of Major Jessie Marcel was put under hyptnosis in 1990. He can remember being awakened by his father that night and following him outside to help carry in a large box filled with debrie. When they got inside with the box they emptied the contents of the debrie on to the kitchen floor. While under hypnosis Jessie Jr. described the lead foil and the I-beams. He recalled the writing on the I-beams as "Purple. Strange. Never saw anything like it...Different geometric shapes, leaves and circles." Jessie Jr. said the symbols where shiny purple and very small, There were many separate figures. This was also said under hypnosis. Marsel Sr. said it was a flying saucer. Jessie Jr. asked "What is a flying saucer. Marcel Sr. replyed. "I don't know what a flying saucer is...it's a ship". Marcel is excited. At 11:A.M Walter Haut the public relation officer, finished a press release which he was ordered to write and gave copies to the two radio stations and both newspapers in in Roswell. By 2:26 P.M the story was out on AP wire. "The Army Air Forces here today announced a flying disk had been found." Calls began to pour in from all over the world, as the M.Ps loaded wreckage onto a C-54 from the first transport unit. By this time Col. Blanchard was getting very irritated with all the calls coming into the base. Blanchard decided to travel down to the debrie field to see it for himself and left instructions that he"d gone on leave. On July 8th 1947 Marsel reported what he had found to Col. Blanchard, Marcel showed him pieces of the debrie. Blanchard had not see anything like it before. Blanchard then sent Marsel to Fort Worth Air Army Air Field to see General Ramey, Commanding Officer of the Eighth Air Force. Marcel stated years later to Walter Haut that he took some of the debrie into General Ramey's office to show him what he had found. The debris was placed on Ramey's desk for the General to see on his return. When the General returned he wanted to know the exact loctation of the debris field. Marcel and the General then went to the map room down the hall, but when they returned to the Generals office, all the debris that was on the desk was gone and was replaced by a weather balloon spread out on the floor of the office. Major Charles A. Cashon took the now famous photo of Marcel standing over the weather balloon, in General Ramey's office. General Thomas DuBose, the chief of staff of the 8th Air Force said. "It was a cover story. The whole balloon part of it. That was the part of the story we were told to give the public and news and that was it." From that day farward the military tried to convince the news media that object found near Roswell was nothing more tan a weather balloon. Continued part 3 |
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