Scanned: Case Number 243544: 42-t-1127712-20060476F-001-001-2013

MUFON UFO
There were no
technological
artifacts of any
type - no rem
nants of any
thing resem
bling motors,
servos, elec
tronic compo
nents, instru
ments, a guId
ance system, a
control system,
a propulsion
system, etc.
nothing. The
crash of a
Sopwith Camel
would have left
more complex
and sophisti
cated debris.
June
Number 350
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I-Beam and pattems remembered by Jesse Marcel, Jr. Under hypnosis. Drawing by Kimberly Moeller.
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the floor when he first saw it, the fact that his fa
ther was in uniform, and his accompanying his
father out to the car, where he ~aw additional de
bris in the trunk. i
The most significant thing rlbout the sessions
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in Washington is not so much what came out of
them, but what didn't come ou:t of them. There
were no descriptions or memofies of any kind of
exotic debris or wreckage. Th~re is a very good
reason for that - there simply: was no such ex
otic debris or wreckage for Jes'se to remember. If
there had been, in all probabili~y, he would have
remembered it consciously. Nonetheless, be
cause of the extreme importanbe of the debris to
the Roswell case, the effort wds worth a try
just in case. There was no risk lor a negative ef
fect on what Jesse remembered. Hypnosis can
elicit memories of things that didn't happen, butI
it can't take away memories of things that did
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happen. I
Unfortunately, instead of p~oviding any re
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newed hope or encouragement, the outcome of
the hypnosis sessions in Washington, D.C., was,I
for me, the final nail in the cof,fin of the Roswell
crashed-saucer scenario. The sessions made itI
absolutely clear that the material recovered from
the Foster ranch northwest of ~oswell in 1947
was anything but unique or exotic. As it turnedI
out, it was extremely mundane.
According to Jesse's best recollection, the
material laid out on his kitche~ floor, which wasI
representative of that at the site, consisted pri
marily of pieces of metallic fOlI, a short beam or
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"stick," and a few pieces of a plastic or Bakelite-
like substance. Certainly, such mundane debris
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would not constitute the wreckage from any
kind of sophisticated vehicle ~r craft, much less
one capable of interstellar trav,el.
There was nothing to indicate form or stmc-I
ture. There was nothing to indicate some kind of
ultra-advanced technology. There were no tech
nological artifacts of any type 1- no remnants of. I
anything resembling motors, servos, electronic
components, instruments, a gUidance system, a
control system, a propulsion sYstem, etc.
nothing. The crash of a Sopwith Camel would
have left more complex and sdphisticated debris.
Even the debris from a two-thbusand-year-old
Roman chariot would have be~n more interest-
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ing and varied than the debris that was laid out
on the Marcel kitchen iloor. At least with the
chariot there would have been some technologi
cal remnants such as parts of the axles and
wheels.
While we have no idea what the debris from
a crashed spaceship would look like, it is reason
able to assume that it would retlect a level of
complexity and technologicl;ll advancement be
yond imagination. Postulating that a few pieces
of foil, plastic-like material, and short beams
constitute the remains of a machine of such ca
pability and complexity is more than just a
quantum leap, it is completely baseless and to
tally illogical.
An Amazing Coincidence
In addition to being mundane, the material re
covered from the Foster ranch is detinitely rec
oncilable with the debris from an ML-307 radar
reilector - the length and cross-sectional size
of the beams or sticks, the pieces of foil, and the
plastic-like material (now thought to be part of
one of the plastic ballast cases that contained
sand). Even the color of the symbols that Jesse,
Jr., remembers is almost identical to the color of
the tlower patterns on the balsa stick that Irving
Newton remembers seeing in Ramey's office.
The crashed saucer scenario requires an im
plausible occurrence_ A tlying saucer crashes
northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, and leaves
debris in the form of small pieces of foil, short
beams that have a maximum length of about
three feet, and pieces of Bakelite-like material.
Amazingly, by incredible coincidence, a balloon
array that disappeared in the same general area
four weeks earlier carried three radar reflectors
constructed/rom reflective/oil, short beams that
have a maximum length o/aboUl three feet. and
pieces of Bakelite-like material.
Obviously, the idea of any such coincidence
ever happening is absurd. The debris recovered
from the Foster ranch was that of an ML-307
radar reflector.
It is not hard to imagine how the apparent
misidentification probably came about. During
the previous two weeks, there had been a wave
of sightings of tlying saucers or "disks" through
1997