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  Roswell UFO Incident Encyclopedia Articles @ NaturalResearch.com (Natural Research)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marcel and Cavitt went with Brazel to his ranch, retrieved some of the debris and returned with it to the Roswell base on the evening of July 7.
Marcel and Ramey's then chief of staff, Brigadier General Thomas Dubose (ret.), would later claim that the weather balloon was a cover story to get the press off their backs.
Marcel reported gathering highly unusual materials near Brazel's ranch, which he said were "not of this Earth." He was then ordered to fly the recovered debris to Wright Field, first stopping in Fort Worth, Texas, to see Brigadier General Roger Ramey[12], head of the 8th Air Force there.
www.naturalresearch.com /encyclopedia/Roswell_UFO_Incident   (8388 words)

  
 Roswell: Case Not Closed Just Yet
Marcel was one of the first people to explore the site of the wreckage, and according to him, what he found there was certainly not a weather balloon.
Marcel was ordered to pose for press photographers with debris that would be identified as a weather balloon.
Marcel insisted in numerous interviews in the late 1970s that what he found resembled no earthly material, that the Air Force knew that perfectly well and had concocted the weather balloon story to cover it up.
ezone.org /ez/e1/articles/cassel.html   (2408 words)

  
 The Skeptical Believer: Roswell
The balsa wood was covered, perhaps to protect it from moisture, by a household shelf-covering material or decorative tape, decorated with odd little abstract flower-petal designs -- highly stylized, the flowers were almost like some kind of hieroglyph, if you sort of squinted.
Marcel told his young son he believed this was a piece of one of those flying disks that Arnold had seen.
Marcel was hauled before the military authorities at the base and Those Who Knew Better informed him he had mis-identified a weather balloon.
www.darkecho.com /skepticalbeliever/roswell.html   (1870 words)

  
 RoswellSummary8
Marcel likewise said he was under strict orders not to talk to anyone and only spoke when he was allowed to.
Marcel, in fact, said as much, that they recited a weather balloon story to get the press off their backs.
It struck me when I read the affidavit that the strange statement of the balsa sticks being unusually strong was deliberately inserted by someone to try to account for statements of others (including Marcel) that the sticks recovered in the field were unbreakable and not markable.
roswellproof.homestead.com /RoswellSummary8.html   (4292 words)

  
 A Complete Report About The Roswell Incident
During the night Marcel and Cavitt stayed at the ranch and examined the large piece of debris that had been stored in a shed by Mac Brazel.
These looked something like balsa wood, and were about the same weight, except that they were not wood at all.
Marcel woke up his wife and son and showed them some of the debris.
members.tripod.com /ufo_alien/roz_report.html   (2259 words)

  
 ROSWELL 1947 - Aliens111 - Page 1
Marcel testified that he found an area measuring about three-quarters of a mile long by 200 to 300 feet wide, strewn with a large amount of extremely lightweight, strong material.
In another interview in 1979, Marcel described how later he tried unsuccessfu1ly to bend or dent a piece of extremely light and thin metal which was about 2 feet long and a foot wide.
Major Marcel, it should be noted, was familiar with balloon debris and was convinced that the material he handled was unfamiliar, in that it was impossible to dent or burn, and that, no matter what was done to it, the foil-like metal always returned to its original shape.
www.angelfire.com /wizard/wizardfl/Roswell.html   (1663 words)

  
 ufo - UFOS at close sight: Roswell 1947, claims by researchers, witness describing dummies
While Marcel and his wife Viaud Marcel told that they knew Cavitt, that logically enough, as an Intelligence colleague of Marcel, he sometimes came over for a cup of tea, he told he remembers no such thing.
Balsa wood is a lightweight wood, and the target had to be lightweight.
However, it can be counter-argumented that, although bamboo would be heavier than balsa, it is stronger, and thus it it the same in the end because a less important volume of bamboo would be as strong or stronger than balsa.
ufologie.net /rw/a/whatwood.htm   (1841 words)

  
 Roswell crash anomalous beams
[Q: ...so you're saying what you saw was directly on the balsa wood, not on the foil?] A:  Well, some of it would be on the foil too where the foil was up against the stick.  But what Marcel was trying to show me was on the stick.  And that's a fact, it was on there.
Brazel related that on June 14 he and an 8-year old son, Vernon, were about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J. Foster ranch, which he operates, when they came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks. ...
Jesse A. Marcel and a man in plain clothes accompanied him home, where they picked up the rest of the pieces of the "disk" and went to his home to try to reconstruct it.  According to Brazel they simply could not reconstruct it at all.
roswellproof.homestead.com /debris1_beams.html   (2563 words)

  
 Earth to Kal Korff (Part 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marcel never mentioned it (He said there was an extremely tough parchment-like substance covered with hieroglyphics on the field, but nothing about it being attached to the foil or being like paper; he couldn't cut or burn it).
Marcel was also in the South Pacific during Operation Crossroads in 1946 (he handled staff briefings and security for the 509th and was commended for his job by Gen. Ramey), and all his various other air intelligence and training assignments while in the U.S. would have added to his flight time.
Marcel, e.g., worked as an aerial cartographer for Shell Oil in Houston before the war, and one of the places he said he "attended" was the U. of Houston.
www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/1997/may/m08-019.shtml   (3997 words)

  
 Military Forces Acting in Great Secrecy
I would almost have to describe it as a metal with plastic properties." Marcel was convinced that the material had nothing to do with a weather balloon or radar target.
Major Marcel was ordered to load the debris on a B-29 (one of several aircraft said to have been involved in transporting the materials from Roswell Army Air Field) and fly it to Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) at Dayton, Ohio, for examination.
Additionally, it seems that there was over-reaction by Colonel Blanchard and Major Marcel, in originally reporting that a `flying disc' had been recovered when, at that time, nobody for sure knew what the term even meant since it had only been in use for a couple of weeks.
www.beyondtopsecret.com /Roswell_Cover_Up.html   (8213 words)

  
 Roswell Daily Record
According to Marcel] They were, as I recall, perhaps three-eighths of an inch by one quarter of an inch thick, and [came] in just about all sizes, none of them very long.
The plane later took Marcel to Ft. Worth to meet Gen. Ramey.) (Pflock, FUFOR, affidavit, 5/30/91) "I also saw what was described by another witness as an I-beam and markings." (Pflock) According to Shirkey, Marcel and another member of the group carried open cardboard boxes filled with debris, including...
Some witnesses, including Marcel and Ramey's aide Col. Thomas Dubose (later General), say the real debris was swapped with a weather balloon, and that Newton only saw the alleged swapped weather balloon material.) (USAF, from affidavit, Attach.
www.anomalies.net /archive/roswell/witness1.html   (5336 words)

  
 The Book Of THoTH - Library - Famous UFO Cases - Famous UFO Cases from the 1940's - Roswell
Marcel would categorically state that the debris he held in his hands, and showed to his family, was not the same material shown in photos of the "balloon wreckage."
When Marcel arrived back at the base, he was instructed by Colonel Blanchard to load the debris on a B-29, and fly with it to Wright Field in Ohio, stopping on the way at Carswell AAFB in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Marcel was stunned to find upon his return to his home base, that he was made a laughing stock because he ignorantly misidentified the balloon material with that of "something unknown." Some three months later, however, Marcel was promoted to Lt. Colonel, and assigned to a new program.
www.book-of-thoth.com /sections-viewarticle-674.html   (4876 words)

  
 balsa wood Expert Balsa Wood Structure Discussion Site Balsa Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Balsa cuts easily with a hobby 3/32x3/8x36'' (20) Category: Building Supplies Wood Balsa 23% blocks 1 5.13 MID7020 x Balsa wood blocks to using balsa was, and still is, the popular size of balsa sheets,...
balsa wood are anisotropic, that is, their properties cut into sheets or round dowels.
Balsa Scientific classification Kingdom: balsa wood has such a high moisture content, is not until balsa is reached that there the new balsa trees grow, the strongest will result of the balsa tree's fast growth cycle, 3/8 x 4 $ 5.30 IN STOCK Balsa with balsa construction.
balsa-wood.lumberhome.com   (1951 words)

  
 Thinner question.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marcel ============================================================ There are three kinds of mathematicians..
Where.007 balsa is concerned you just cant get by with these glues.
Balsa is still the best stuff since to be strong enough for Penny it has a really large cross section.
www.aeromodel.com /TM/F15741   (836 words)

  
 The Case for Roswell: Part II - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
But, if this was the balsa wood debris from a Mogul balloon, surely a piece the size mentioned could be broken, cut, or burned very easily, even by a child.
Yet the skeptics claim this was balsa wood, with colored tape (stating that they got the tape from a toy company, and it had flowers printed on it).
So, while we do have material resembling tin foil and balsa wood, unlike those materials, the ones found in wreckage had memory metal qualities, wouldn’t burn or tear, and the beams couldn’t be broken but were flexible, completely unlike tin foil and balsa wood.
www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread120342/pg1   (4350 words)

  
 Book Reviews: Four Books on the "Roswell Case"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marcel and another military man soon arrived at the sheriff's office, and at the direction of their base commander, Col. William Blanchard, the two accompanied Brazel back to his ranch.
According to fellow officer Irving Newton, Marcel insisted at the time of the incident that this was writing from another planet (U.S. Air Force, 1995).
Soon after talking with Marcel, Friedman learned of another man, Barney Barnett, by then deceased, who reportedly had claimed to have seen not only a crashed saucer in New Mexico about the time of the Roswell excitement, but also the bodies of its hapless crew.
www.scientificexploration.org /jse/bookreviews/12-1/roswellcase.html   (4390 words)

  
 ufo - UFOS at close sight: Roswell 1947, the witnesses, Jesse Marcel Jr.
"The beams I examined were NOT balsa wood but were metal which had the same color etc. as did the foil.
So far there are just too many discrepancies for me to come out squarely on the Mogul device and Air Force side for me to say Damn, that is it.
The following is a general description of the fragment that had what appeared to have a form of writing on its surface.
ufologie.net /rw/w/jessemarceljr.htm   (1413 words)

  
 Art/Museums: Making Choices, second part of Millennium exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Man Ray moved to Paris in 1921, was introduced by Marcel Duchamp to the Dadaists, who immediately embraced his radical paintings, assemblages and objects, and he quickly made a name for himself.
Duchamp ascribed to the pseudo-scientific institution of "Pataphysics," a term devised by the author and playwright Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) as being neither a scientific or artistic theory, a political position or a school of thought, but rather the science of imaginary solutions based on random choice.
They are constructed out of balsa wood, paper and rubber, and he claimed they could really function.
www.thecityreview.com /mchoice.html   (3192 words)

  
 Re: Charles Schmid?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In fact, ALL those who did discuss the cross-section of these fragments--including Dr. Marcel's father--said it was rectangular or square.
Similarly, all such witnesses other than Dr. Marcel--including Dr. Marcel's father--described the members as sticks looking and feeling like balsa or simply as balsa, not metalic in any way.
Finally, lest anyone further misconstrue my views, I consider Dr. Jesse Marcel to be both an honest man and one of the nicest guys I've ever met.
www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/1998/jan/m20-020.shtml   (280 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > BMW Sauber
The best known BMW engine users at the time were Veritas (until the firm started building its own engines), AFM (which went on to use the Kuchen V8) and Jicey.
Eigenbau constructors included Marcel Balsa and most of the racers in East Germany, notably Paul Greifzu.
At the German GP Balsa and about a dozen others turned up to race in BMW-engined machinery with the Veritas chassis proving to be the most effective, allowing Fritz Reiss and Toni Ulmen to finish seventh and eighth.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-bmw.html   (1166 words)

  
 Marcel Balsa - Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
Marcel Balsa - Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
Never much more than an enthusiastic amateur Balsa spent the 1940s and early 1950s taking his BMW special to local Grand Prix events
He finished a distant fourth place at the 1949 Luxembourg Grand Prix and managed a third place in the race at Cadours that claimed the life of Raymond Sommer.
www.gpracing.net192.com /drivers/careers/35.cfm   (112 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Marcel Balsa
Location: GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Marcel Balsa
From a remote area of the Limousin, Balsa did not make any impression in racing until after World War II when he acquired a Bugatti Type 51 and was quite competitive in French national events.
When the Bugatti was no longer competitive he built a BMW-engined Formula 2 special and showed well before trying his hand at the wheel of a Jicey-BMW in which he finished third in the GP of Cadours, an event which was overshadowed by the death of Raymond Sommer.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-balmar.html   (182 words)

  
 Marcel Balsa Formula 1 Driver
Marcel Balsa Formula 1 Driver Statistics and results
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Marcel Balsa Formula 1 Driver Profile for Marcel Balsa.
www.4mula1.ro /history/driver/Marcel_Balsa   (60 words)

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