TRUTH WILL ALWAYS BE TRUTH, REGARDLESS OF LACK OF UNDERSTANDING, DISBELIEF OR IGNORANCE.
W. CLEMENT STONE
Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.
Following the United States declaration of war on Japan in December 1941, Jesse Jr.'s father, Jesse Marcel Sr., commission into the U.S. Army Air Corps an intelligence officer. Assigned to the 509th Bomb Group, he served in the Pacific Theater of operations and played an integral role in planning the group's decisive nuclear strike sorties over Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended the war.
After his combat tour in the Pacific, then-Maj. Jesse Marcel Sr. and his family were reassigned to Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF), N.M., in the mid-1940s. It was during this assignment in July 1947, that an unidentified flying object crashed on a local ranch outside RAAF, prompting the RAAF base commander to deploy Marcel Sr. to investigate the wreckage with a fellow Army counterintelligence agent.
First on the crash scene, Marcel loaded some of the unknown wreckage into his vehicle and drove it home to show to Jesse Jr. in the middle of the night. Young Jesse Marcel Jr., aged 10, along with this father, attempted to identify the wreckage, but could not make sense of the advanced, state-of-the-art material they had handled what followed became history. The U.S. Army Air Corps issued a press release on July 8, 1947, that a “flying saucer” had been recovered. This unprecedented news release generated such a dramatic response from the nation that the U.S. Army Air Corps retracted the statement and issued a press release the following day that a weather balloon had been recovered. Marcel Sr., along with all involved in the recovery, was ordered to sign a nondisclosure statement and never speak of the incident again. He kept this secret until the 1970s, when he and Jesse Jr. decided to speak publicly to end what they perceived as a military cover-up and grave injustice to the American people.
Working with Stanton Friedman, Kevin Randall, Don Schmitt and Steven Bassett, Marcel Jr. gave hundreds of lectures, radio and television interviews, and published a 2007 book titled “The Roswell Legacy,” which attested to what he and his father had witnessed that night at Roswell in July 1947. Until their deaths, both Jesse Sr. and Jesse Jr. maintained that what they witnessed and handled that night at Roswell was “not of this Earth.”
Following in his father’s footsteps, Jesse Jr. joined the U.S. Navy after earning a doctorate in medicine (M.D.) degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1962. He completed his residencies at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego and Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore. Shortly after joining the Navy, Dr. Marcel was assigned to the USS Renville (APA 227) with a U.S. Marine Corps task force positioned off the coast of Cuba in the days leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Following the de-escalation of hostilities between the U.S. and Soviet Union in Cuba, the USS Renville was repositioned to Southeast Asia, where then-Lt. (Dr.) Marcel Jr. participated in U.S. Navy and Marine Corps combat operations in Vietnam.
After returning to port in 1968, Marcel began an otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) residency at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego. Completing his residency in 1970, Marcel resigned his commission from the U.S. Navy the following year and returned to private life in Helena to practice medicine.
While serving as an otolaryngology specialist in Helena, Marcel was offered a commission in the Montana Army National Guard in 1971 and was later sent to Rotary Wing Flight Training at Fort Rucker, Ala., where he earned his U.S. Army aviation wings in 1981. During his distinguished service in the Montana Army National Guard, Marcel was appointed as the Montana state surgeon general and retired at the rank of colonel (O-6) in August 1996 on his 60th birthday.
Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Marcel requested to be reactivated for active duty to serve as a flight surgeon with the 189th Attack Helicopter Battalion, based at Fort Harrison. He was called back to active duty in 2004 and deployed to Balad Air Base, Iraq, for a 14-month tour of duty in October 2004, just after his 68th birthday. While serving at Balad, Marcel flew 225 combat hours as a flight surgeon in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon completion of his combat tour, Marcel was discharged again from active duty service in December 2005 and assigned to the Individual Ready Reserve.
After returning from Iraq, Marcel suffered from a series of disabilities incurred during his service there. These disabilities, which ranged from physical maladies to PTSD, drove Jesse into permanent retirement from his medical practice. As a quiet professional, Marcel completed his military service at age 69 and never complained of his disabilities or of the sacrifices he made during his 40 years of service in the U.S. military.
Jesse was a beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather and father-in-law who loved to run, ski and mountain bike. His experiences at Roswell were known throughout the world and his absolute integrity served as an inspiration to hundreds of UFO investigators seeking to uncover the true events that transpired at Roswell in July 1947. He was a quiet and kind-hearted man who dedicated his life to healing others and was among the most humble and accomplished senior military officers anyone has ever met. Truly an officer and a gentleman, Jesse Marcel Jr. will be missed dearly, not only by his family, but by the hundreds around the world that were positively affected by his testimony.
After his combat tour in the Pacific, then-Maj. Jesse Marcel Sr. and his family were reassigned to Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF), N.M., in the mid-1940s. It was during this assignment in July 1947, that an unidentified flying object crashed on a local ranch outside RAAF, prompting the RAAF base commander to deploy Marcel Sr. to investigate the wreckage with a fellow Army counterintelligence agent.
First on the crash scene, Marcel loaded some of the unknown wreckage into his vehicle and drove it home to show to Jesse Jr. in the middle of the night. Young Jesse Marcel Jr., aged 10, along with this father, attempted to identify the wreckage, but could not make sense of the advanced, state-of-the-art material they had handled what followed became history. The U.S. Army Air Corps issued a press release on July 8, 1947, that a “flying saucer” had been recovered. This unprecedented news release generated such a dramatic response from the nation that the U.S. Army Air Corps retracted the statement and issued a press release the following day that a weather balloon had been recovered. Marcel Sr., along with all involved in the recovery, was ordered to sign a nondisclosure statement and never speak of the incident again. He kept this secret until the 1970s, when he and Jesse Jr. decided to speak publicly to end what they perceived as a military cover-up and grave injustice to the American people.
Working with Stanton Friedman, Kevin Randall, Don Schmitt and Steven Bassett, Marcel Jr. gave hundreds of lectures, radio and television interviews, and published a 2007 book titled “The Roswell Legacy,” which attested to what he and his father had witnessed that night at Roswell in July 1947. Until their deaths, both Jesse Sr. and Jesse Jr. maintained that what they witnessed and handled that night at Roswell was “not of this Earth.”
Following in his father’s footsteps, Jesse Jr. joined the U.S. Navy after earning a doctorate in medicine (M.D.) degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1962. He completed his residencies at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego and Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore. Shortly after joining the Navy, Dr. Marcel was assigned to the USS Renville (APA 227) with a U.S. Marine Corps task force positioned off the coast of Cuba in the days leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Following the de-escalation of hostilities between the U.S. and Soviet Union in Cuba, the USS Renville was repositioned to Southeast Asia, where then-Lt. (Dr.) Marcel Jr. participated in U.S. Navy and Marine Corps combat operations in Vietnam.
After returning to port in 1968, Marcel began an otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) residency at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego. Completing his residency in 1970, Marcel resigned his commission from the U.S. Navy the following year and returned to private life in Helena to practice medicine.
While serving as an otolaryngology specialist in Helena, Marcel was offered a commission in the Montana Army National Guard in 1971 and was later sent to Rotary Wing Flight Training at Fort Rucker, Ala., where he earned his U.S. Army aviation wings in 1981. During his distinguished service in the Montana Army National Guard, Marcel was appointed as the Montana state surgeon general and retired at the rank of colonel (O-6) in August 1996 on his 60th birthday.
Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Marcel requested to be reactivated for active duty to serve as a flight surgeon with the 189th Attack Helicopter Battalion, based at Fort Harrison. He was called back to active duty in 2004 and deployed to Balad Air Base, Iraq, for a 14-month tour of duty in October 2004, just after his 68th birthday. While serving at Balad, Marcel flew 225 combat hours as a flight surgeon in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon completion of his combat tour, Marcel was discharged again from active duty service in December 2005 and assigned to the Individual Ready Reserve.
After returning from Iraq, Marcel suffered from a series of disabilities incurred during his service there. These disabilities, which ranged from physical maladies to PTSD, drove Jesse into permanent retirement from his medical practice. As a quiet professional, Marcel completed his military service at age 69 and never complained of his disabilities or of the sacrifices he made during his 40 years of service in the U.S. military.
Jesse was a beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather and father-in-law who loved to run, ski and mountain bike. His experiences at Roswell were known throughout the world and his absolute integrity served as an inspiration to hundreds of UFO investigators seeking to uncover the true events that transpired at Roswell in July 1947. He was a quiet and kind-hearted man who dedicated his life to healing others and was among the most humble and accomplished senior military officers anyone has ever met. Truly an officer and a gentleman, Jesse Marcel Jr. will be missed dearly, not only by his family, but by the hundreds around the world that were positively affected by his testimony.
The Roswell Legacy
"The world has waited a long time for the inside scoop on Roswell. Truth is an excellent curative for false proclamations. The Roswell crashed saucer retrieval is one of the most important UFO cases ever, anywhere. We need more information from those directly involved, and this book provides a good deal of important new material."
--Stanton T. Friedman
--Stanton T. Friedman
My focus in this book will be to present the reader with a clearer picture of the man who was - and remains - at the center of the Roswell controversy; my father, Jesse Marcel, Sr.. While I must acknowledge that my own account carries within its own bias, I realize that my duty to my father is to present him as the man he was, as accurately as possible, lest I fall into the same trap as those who have allowed their own biases and agendas to paint a portrait that is not as much the man as what he represents to them and their goals. As such, I feel I am the only living person truly qualified to wield the brush. I hope I serve his memory well.
--Jesse Marcel Jr.
--Jesse Marcel Jr.
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Below are some slides from The Roswell Legacy Lecture
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Jesse Marcel: Since 1947 I have known that we are not alone in this universe This beautiful place that we live in it’s called the universe or our galaxy as a matter of fact there is 10 to the 22nd power of stars in the known galaxy which equates to the number of grains of sands on the beaches of the earth and to say that only one grain of sand out of that multitude has cention life like us around it is just begging the question ...
Someone once said very truthfully if we are the only ones here…there is an awful lot of wasted space out there! I believe in the intelligent design... At the very beginning at the big bang when things were created…if the parameters were changed just ever so slightly, like the rate of expansion of the universe. Or the charge on a proton or electron or the masses there of... Had that been off by 1 trillionth from what it turned out to be we wouldn’t be here…nor would our cousins from outer space be here either I think that we are all related , people of earth, people from star 7, or wherever they come from we are all related to them because ... In the very beginning when the big bang occurred there is something called “quantum entanglement” that occurred …Einstein calls it "spooky action at a distance” but that means that all particles created in the big bang are related to each other and one example is that you take two matched particles and send one of them could be light years away but you’d make one change in one the other changes correspondently instantly like there’s faster than light communication ….so we are all related we in this universe and we have a lot of cousins up there. --Jesse Marcel Jr. |
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A TRUE OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN -
You will be missed
You will be missed
Dr. Jesse A. Marcel Jr. of Helena died unexpectedly at his home on Aug. 23, 2013, at the age of 76. He was the only child born to the late U.S. Army Lt. Col. (retired) Jesse Marcel Sr. and Viaud Abrams Marcel, in Houston on Aug. 30, 1936.