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The Roswell UFO incident, which was aired previously on Unsolved Mysteries in 1989, is once more the subject of volume 5 episode 4 of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix, which aired on October 2, 2024.
The alleged 1947 UFO crash, which some believe to have been real, despite the accident's purported hot air balloon origin, is the central event in The Roswell UFO incident.
To find more leads, this mysterious and intriguing case is being aired yet again, and the synopsis for the same reads:
"In 1947, an unidentified flying object crashed near Roswell, NM. Was it a spy balloon or an alien encounter? UFO experts unravel the iconic mystery."
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5 key details about The Roswell UFO incident as shown in Unsolved Mysteries
1) W.W. Brazel collected the debris and handed it over to Major Jesse Marcel
In Chavez, New Mexico, on July 2, 1947, during a severe lightning storm, ranchers claimed that they heard an explosion. On the next morning, a ranch foreman W.W. Brazel discovered debris in a field. He collected sheets of foil-metal-like material. As per the show, the metal apparently possessed a strange quality, it was "super light" and "super strong" at the same time.
As shown in Unsolved Mysteries, Brazel gathered the material in his pickup truck and gave it to Major Jesse Marcel of the 509th Bomb Squadron. Marcel took the package to his boss, soon after which on July 8, a press release report revealed that a flying saucer crashed in Roswell.
2) Major Marcel was told to alter his statements by Brigadier General Roger Ramy
Major Marcel, with some of the collected debris, went to Brigadier General Roger Ramy, who was posted in Texas. Ramy took Marcel to a map room and when he returned, the wreckage he got with him had vanished. In place of the wreckage, there was a shredded reflector kite, and a clump of rotting neoprene rubber balloons.
Marcel ordered Ramy to hold the shredded kite for pictures so that a new story about the debris being of a hot air balloon could be published. Marcel was told not to talk about the actual debris recovered to anyone, including his family.
The next morning, the story was dead as the media outlets were asked to drop it or their licenses would be canceled. Marcel was kept overnight in Fort Worth. He retired a couple of years after the incident.
3) Major Marcel revealed the truth before his death
Denice Marcel revealed on the show that his grandfather Major Marcel kept his military vows till the end and did not reveal the real story behind the UFO crash for a long time. However, 30 years after the incident, when Marcel was diagnosed with terminal emphysema, he decided to reveal the truth about the Roswell incident.
In a show called In Search Of, Marcel had previously talked about the debris that he had collected and said:
"It was not anything from this earth. That I’m quite sure of. You couldn’t even bend it. You couldn’t even deny it. Even with a sledgehammer, would bounce off it…."
Marcel also revealed that he was asked to keep his mouth shut and the media was instructed by Ramy to do the same and call the collected debris as nothing but waste from a weather balloon.
4) An I-Beam was discovered
Jesse Marcel Junior, Major Marcel's son, talked about an 8-10 inches long I-beam, that was retrieved from the crash site by his father. There were purple symbols on the beam as per Unsolved Mysteries. On the show, Jesse Marcel Junior talked about this alleged extraterrestrial gadget and revealed that:
"The most unusual part of this whole thing was what was on the I-beam, on the inner surface of the I-Beam there appeared to be...geometrical shapes.”
5) Bill Brazel and many other Roswell residents seconded the UFO crash incident, claiming it to be true
Bill Brazel, the son of W. W. Brazel, also featured on Unsolved Mysteries. Bill who found pieces of the debris too, revealed on the show that:
“It was not a weather balloon. It was something altogether different...”
Other residents of Roswell who were witnesses to the alleged UFO crash, also claimed that “there was a flying saucer.” According to another witness, it was "some type of craft from outer space.”
Unsolved Mysteries Volume 5 is now streaming on Netflix.
