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SUBJECT: Roswell Testimony FILE: UFO112
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PART 8
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5 THE MILITARY
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5.1 Jesse Marcel
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[Major Jesse Marcel was one of the the first two military
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people to visit the Corona crash site. The other was
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Sheridan Cavitt, who to this day has refused to even
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acknowledge that he was there on the ranch with Marcel.
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Jesse Marcel died in 1982. He was interviewed in 1979.]
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When we arrived at the crash site, it was amazing to see the
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vast amount of area it covered. It was nothing that hit the
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ground or exploded [on] the ground. It's something that
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must have exploded above ground, traveling perhaps at a high
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rate of speed, we don't know. But it scattered over an area
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of about three quarters of a mile long, I would say, and
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fairly wide, several hundred feet wide. So we proceeded to
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pick up all the fragments we could find and load up our Jeep
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Carry-All. It was quite obvious to me, familiar with air
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activities, that it was not a weather balloon, nor was it an
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airplane or a missile. What it was, we didn't know. We
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just picked up the fragments. It was something I had never
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seen before, and I was pretty familiar with all air
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activities. We loaded up the Carry-All but I wasn't
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satisfied. I told Cavitt, "You drive this vehicle back to
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the base and I'll go back out there and pick up as much as I
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can put in the car,", which I did. But we picked up only a
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very small portion of the material that was there.
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One thing that impressed me about the debris that we were
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referring to is the fact that a lot of it looked like
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parchment. A lot of it had a lot of little members
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[I-beams] with symbols that we had to call them
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hieroglyphics because I could not interpret them, they could
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not be read, they were just symbols, something that meant
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something and they were not all the same. The members that
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this was painted on -- by the way, those symbols were pink
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and purple, lavender was actually what it was. And so
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these little members could not be broken, could not be
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burned. I even tried to burn that. It would not burn. The
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same with the parchment we had.
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But something that is more astounding is that the piece of
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metal that we brought back was so thin, just like the
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tinfoil in a pack of cigarette paper. I didn't pay too much
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attention to that at first, until one of the GIs came to me
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and said, "You know the metal that was in there? I tried to
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bend that stuff and it won't bend. I even tried it with a
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sledge hammer. You can't make a dent on it."
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I didn't go back to look at it myself again, because we were
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busy in the office and I had quite a bit of work to do. I
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am quite sure that this young fellow would not have lied to
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me about that, because he was a very truthful, very honest
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guy, so I accepted his word for that. So, beyond that, I
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didn't actually see him hit the matter with a sledge hammer,
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but he said, "It's definite that it cannot be bent and it's
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so light that it doesn't weigh anything." And that was true
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of all the material that was brought up. It was so light
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that it weighed practically nothing.
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This particular piece of metal was, I would say, about two
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feet long and perhaps a foot wide. See, that stuff weighs
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nothing, it's so thin, it isn't any thicker than the tinfoil
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in a pack of cigarettes. So I tried to bend the stuff, it
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wouldn't bend. We even tried making a dent in it with a
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16-pound sledge hammer, and there was still no dent in it.
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I didn't have the time to go out there and find out more
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about it, because I had so much other work to do that I just
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let it go. It's still a mystery to me as to what the whole
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thing was. Like I said before, I knew quite a bit about the
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material used in the air, but it was nothing I had seen
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before. And as of now, I still don't know what it was. So
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that's how it stands.
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[Here is what Jesse Marcel said on the American television
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program "Unsolved Mysteries".]
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There were just fragments strewn all over the area, an area
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about three quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet
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wide. So we proceeded to pick up the parts.
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I tried to bend the stuff, it would not bend. I even tried
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to burn it, it would not burn. That stuff weighs nothing.
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It's not any thicker than tin foil in a pack of cigarettes.
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We even tried making a dent in it with a 16-pound sledge
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hammer, still no dent in it.
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One thing I was certain of, being familiar with all our
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activities, that it was not a weather balloon, nor an
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aircraft, nor a missile. It was something else, which we
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didn't know what it was.
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End of part 8
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