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Army officer's secret journal could offer new clues about Roswell Incident of 1947

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Army officer's secret journal could offer new clues about the UFO crash in Roswell in 1947
https://www.livescience.com/roswell-the-...annel.html

EXCERPTS: A long-hidden diary belonging to a U.S. intelligence officer has rekindled research into the Roswell Incident, the infamous UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, that took place more than 70 years ago.

When a mysterious object slammed into the desert near the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) in July 1947, Maj. Jesse Marcel, an RAAF intelligence officer, was sent to supervise collection of the debris. A press officer at the RAAF issued a statement on July 8 describing "the crash and recovery of 'a flying disc,'" which many interpreted as evidence of alien contact. But the next day, another army official told reporters that RAAF officers had recovered a weather balloon, not a flying saucer.

Newspaper photos showed Marcel posing with pieces of what appeared to be a shredded high-altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector. But in the decades since, many have speculated about the military's initial "flying disc" report, wondering if the wreckage was perhaps more unusual than the photos implied. Recently, Marcel's family revealed that he had kept a diary from that period that might contain clues about the crash, sparking a new investigation by the History Channel in "Roswell: The First Witness," part of the network's "History's Greatest Mysteries" series.

[...] the central component of the new inquiry is a diary, which Marcel supposedly kept during the time of the Roswell crash, and which is now in the possession of his grandchildren. Decades after the event, Marcel told an interviewer that he believed the object that crashed in the New Mexico desert had extraterrestrial origins, Time reported in 1997. Analysis of the diary - and translation of its cryptic language - could reveal coded messages that Marcel wrote about the crash at the time that it happened, Smith said.

Interest in UFOs hasn't waned since the Roswell Incident - if anything, recent evidence has amplified it... (MORE - details)
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'Our Grandfather Was the First Person To Investigate The Roswell Crash Site in 1947'
https://www.newsweek.com/our-grandfather...te-1551578

EXCERPTS: Our grandfather, Major Jesse Marcel, was a decorated intelligence officer in 1947 stationed at the 509th Bomb group [...] In early July of that year, a mysterious crash occurred in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico and he was chosen to investigate the crash site and report back to his superior, Colonel William H. Blanchard. What he found was remarkable, and he believed that what he was examining was not made by human hands. We were told growing up that he broke protocol and a few orders by packing up some of the debris to share with his son and wife, our father and grandmother, before returning to the army base. ... As they were examining the material, our dad clearly recalls grandpa saying that they were looking at "pieces of a flying saucer."

Dad would share with us many more details of that night [...] He would talk about seeing foil sheets that were incredibly strong yet light as a feather. He would further describe beams with hieroglyphic looking writing that he claimed would appear if you looked at them at an angle. ... eyewitnesses ... said that they saw "metal" material, like that described by our father, that returned to its original shape no matter how much you twisted or tried to put a wrinkle in it.

On summer trips to visit our grandfather in Louisiana, he would add to the story. He told us that he had seen glass-like fiber optic materials strewn throughout the debris in the field [...] He would describe how it took five to six large 2.5 ton 6x6 cargo trucks to transport all the debris back to the base.

As we grew older, Grandpa would share more of the story with us but was still very guarded when it came to telling us too much, maybe out of concern that information that haunted him would come back to haunt us. We could see on his face that he was conflicted between the need to expose the entire story as he saw it and the need to honor the oath he had taken to his country. We would try to get him to tell us more, but with a career in intelligence, he knew how to record and keep a secret.

As a military family we moved to wherever our father was stationed at the time [...] One of our fondest memories was spending time with our father as he educated us in everything from physics to astronomy. When not in school, we would stand side-by-side with dad working on one of his many projects.

[...] People have asked where the debris ended up? Or whether our grandfather kept a memento and if so where is it? ... we have a diary found amongst his things after he died, which has not been shared with the public before. One theory is that the diary was written in a kind of "home-brewed code..." With our memories, documents, and our grandfather's unseen diary, a door is cracking open that was once thought closed... (MORE - details)


Cynical Sindee: So basically, much ado about a diary which in the end doesn't seem to present any overt revelations about the incident. Just a tacked-on hypothesis that hidden information might be concealed in the writings. Wow, that's certainly a novel idea in this exploitative genre.
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Quote:One theory is that the diary was written in a kind of "home-brewed code..."


Oh oh, and the guard goes up.
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