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Major Jesse Marcel
With reference to his article on Nazi UFOs [FT430:44-49], I would be curious to know what evidence SDTucker has for suggesting that Major Jesse Marcel was a liar. Researchers, who I suspect have spent a lot more time than Mr Tucker in researching the Roswell incident, have come to the conclusion that he was a decent and honourable man. Mr Tucker himself admits that Marcel’s account of what happened in New Mexico in 1947 was fairly muted compared to later claims. Marcel was the chief intelligence officer at the then only nuclear armed air base in the world. It may suit Mr Tucker’s agenda to portray such a man as untruthful or a fantasist but, given his status and range of responsibilities, it is hardly likely. Furthermore, Marcel’s son (a medical doctor and high-ranking soldier) and many others have corroborated his specific claims.
Geoff Clifton
Solihull, West Midlands
SD Tucker replies:
I’m afraid Mr Clifton has slightly misunderstood. Whilst I don’t think an alien spacecraft actually crashed at Roswell, when I say Major Marcel “spun a highly sellable yarn”, I mean rather that the authors of later, 1980s and 1990s-era, books on this subject were able to spin out his initial testimony about tinfoil-like materials being found on the Roswell Ranch in 1947 into a much more elaborate tale about ET corpses and structured craft being found, etc.
I fully accept that Marcel retrieved some odd debris out in the field one day, but in my view he exaggerated or misinterpreted what he found. For example, he claimed the tinfoil-like material he found at the crash-site was essentially indestructible to fire, knife, etc, yet photographs of him examining this material, like the one reproduced [], clearly show it has been torn into little bits, which doesn’t really sound all that indestructible, does it? I don’t know, but I would imagine the