April 13, 2008, Helena, MT-- The Roswell Legacy, the most anticipated book of last summer, is soon to be released with updates, new revelations, and a brand new look.

In 1986, on his death bed, retired Major Jesse Marcel told his son; "You must tell the world the truth about Roswell. When the military no longer has a hold over you and your family, please set the record straight!" Although a few internet and radio audiences have been privy to some of Jesse and his father's story, this is the first time that the entire story has been told, and chronicled in the book,

Major Jesse Marcel was the head of intelligence at an Army Air Field located at Roswell, New Mexico. On July 7, 1947 Major Marcel was sent to inspect what was being reported as the crash of an unidentified object on a ranch seventy-five miles northwest of the base. After inspecting the crash site, Marcel stopped by his home to show his family what he had discovered. Jesse Jr. was only eleven years old at the time, but vividly remembers his father's excitement, and seeing and handling a foil-like material that his father said was scattered around the wreckage. It was shiny and paper thin, but could not be torn or cut. It also retained a memory, mysteriously unfolding each time his father tried to fold it. And then there was that beam of metal several feet long, which was covered with hieroglyphic-type writing and markings. It was indeed something that was not of this world.

 

Upon return to his Air base, Major Marcel's superior officer, Col. William "Butch" Blanchard , ordered him to fly the material to Wright Patterson Air Base in Dayton, OH, first stopping in Fort Worth, TX to show the strange findings to Gen. Roger Ramey ,,the head of the Eighth Air Force. When Ramey learned that Blanchard had issued a press release stating they had recovered a "flying disc," and that it was being flown to Wright-Patt, Gen. Ramey was livid, and so were military leaders in Washington, DC. After receiving a telegram from his superiors, Ramey called a press conference in Dallas-Ft. Worth, and a cover-up story would be released, explaining that the debris found was that of a weather balloon. Marcel would be photographed (see photo right) holding the outer skin of a weather balloon, and was forced to tell the media that these were his only findings at Roswell. In a second photo, that appeared in a Fort Worth newspaper, Gen. Ramey is seen holding piece of paper in his left hand. It is a telegram he had received from Washington, DC. In the mid-nineties the photo was enlarged by a photography expert and his findings were staggering

From that time on, and despite dozens of collaborating witnesses at the crash site, Major Marcel was forced to live with that lie the rest of his life.

His father's final request haunted Jesse Jr. for nearly twenty years. As retirement finally approached, while serving his tour of duty in Iraq in 2004, Jesse Jr. decided to write his and his father's story. He had this to say during a recent radio interview:

"It is so sad that my father was never exonerated while living, and now after nearly sixty years, some justice will finally come for dad and the Marcel family. Now with release of The Roswell Legacy, he will fbe vindicated and the world will learn the truth!"  Releasing this book is not about fame or money, it is about clearing my father's reputation."