Another early author that came up with interesting details way ahead of his time was:
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Frank Edwards and his 1966 book -
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This is where I read the only report I have seen about the event, published post-Roswell in such detail, decades before Major Marcel broke his silence
and came forward.
"There are such difficult cases as the rancher near Roswell, NM who phoned the sheriff that a blazing disc-shaped object had passed over his house at
low altitude and had crashed and burned on a hillside within view of the house The sheriff called the military: the military came on the double quick.
Newsmen were not permitted in the area. A week later however the government released a photograph of a serviceman holding up a box kite with an
aluminum disc about the size of a large pie pan dangling from the bottom of the kite. This, the official report explained, was a device borne aloft on
the kite and used to test the radar gear by bouncing the signals off the pie pan. And this, we were told, was the sort of thing that had so excited
the rancher. We were not told however how the alleged kite caught fire.- nor why the military cordoned off the area while they inspected the wreckage
of a burned-out box kite with a non-inflammable pie pan tied to it."
Frank was of course referring to one of the Major Jessie Marcel Sr. photos in which he states he was ordered to pose with falsified wreckage and stay
silent about it.
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...and then one of Gen. Ramey (on left) and his Chief of Staff, Col. Thomas Dubose (on right) obviously seriously examining the wreckage.
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...and then another of the two of them laughing about what an idiot Major Marcel must be.
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"Gee the Intelligence officer of our most important secret base, (because it is our only nuclear squadron of the day) apparently can't tell the
difference between a weather balloon and a spaceship from Mars! Hahahaha!
Marcel swore that in private when he was ordered to pose with the false wreckage and keep quiet, he was promised "that one day, when this all comes
out, you will be made a hero!" He patiently endured that shame and waited for that day in silence. That day never came and so shortly before he died
he gave a few interviews stating in no uncertain terms what had really happened that day.
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