Roster / The early years

The Roswell base officer who handled the 1947 debris.

Marcel was intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field in July 1947 and went out to collect the debris. In 1978 he told Stanton Friedman the material was not from a weather balloon, restarting interest in the case. The Air Force says it was from Project Mogul, a balloon program.

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