Summary

U.S. Army Air Forces intelligence officer who was the primary military figure to recover and examine the Roswell crash debris in July 1947. In a landmark 1978 interview with Stanton Friedman, Marcel became the first credible military whistleblower to publicly state that the weather balloon explanation was false and that the recovered material had anomalous properties unlike anything he had encountered. His testimony launched the modern era of Roswell research.

Roles

• -Base Intelligence Officer, 509th Bomb Group, Roswell Army Air Field (1947)
• -U.S. Army Air Forces Intelligence Officer

Organizations

Early Career

• -Served as intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II
• -Flew combat missions in the Pacific theater
• -Assigned to the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field - the only nuclear-armed bomb group in the world at the time

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