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Gary Alan Weatherhead
Inspector
Username: Garyw
Post Number: 281
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 7:59 pm: | 
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I mentioned on another thread my families connection to the Roswell U.F.O. incident. Someone e-mailed me and asked me to post it under its own heading so more people could read about it.
To get the story check under the New Orleans Axeman thread. If anyone is interested I will have my wife elaborate on this thread.
All The Best
Gary |
Andrew Spallek
Detective Sergeant
Username: Aspallek
Post Number: 135
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 2:09 am: |
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I'd be interested if she has anything that we haven't heard before in the standard literature on the incident, though from what you said earlier it doesn't sound like it. Seems to me I remember Marcel's son being interviewed on at least one documentary.
Andy
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Kevin Braun
Detective Sergeant
Username: Kbraun
Post Number: 57
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 12:30 pm: |
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Hi Gary, Andy,
Major Jesse Marcel was the head intelligence officer, or A-2, at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947. He was promoted to Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Reserve in 1948 and transferred to Washington D.C. for higher intelligence work.
In 1994 Air Force published "The Roswell Report: Case Closed" (love the title). Case closed concludes that the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces, recovered debris from an Army Air Forces balloon-borne research project code named MOGUL. Lt. Colonel Marcel's Washington D.C. assignment was with the Special Weapons Program. This was a Top Secret program to assess the ongoing development of Soviet nuclear capabilities (Project MOGUL).
I am not saying that I think a UFO crashed in Roswell. I do not think it is likely that Major Jesse Marcel who was familiar with Project MOGUL, weather and high altitude balloons, would fail to recognize radar deflecting apparatus, balloon material or debris.
Take care,
Kevin
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Gary Alan Weatherhead
Inspector
Username: Garyw
Post Number: 283
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 2:17 pm: |
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Hi Kevin and All
I will have my wife contact her relative to see if we can get more information. Jesse Marcel was no dunce and you make a good point about his ability to distinguish between the debri you mention and unidentified marerial.
There is no question from my wife's own knowledge that Jesse could not identify the material. I was unaware that he eventually became a Lt. Colonel although we knew he was always involved in intelligence work.
I had better close before the M.I.B. show up at my door.
All The Best
Gary |
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