Dr. Jesse Marcel died suddenly at his home today. It is believed that he was the victim of a heart attack. Dr. Marcel was the son of Col. Jesse Marcel, who was the first military officer on the scene of the Roswell UFO crash that took place in July of 1947. In a videotape made in 1979, Col. Marcel described the materials that he had found, and after his death Dr. Marcel began telling the story of the materials as his father had shown them to him when he was a boy in 1947.  He recalled metal that would resume its shape if bent, and I beams that had hieroglyphics on them.
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Military personnel arrested a BBC film crew at the secret Area 51 military base in Nevada where UFO conspiracy theorists claim US authorities are keeping bodies of aliens and debris from a spacecraft that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these shows).

They were arrested after they sneaked past the security perimeter, and were forced to lie on the ground for three hours while officials at the base carried out identification checks.
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Former CIA agent Chase Brandon claims that he was made aware during his career that the Roswell Incident really happened. Just days later, the CIA took the unusual step of issuing a denial.

In the Huffington Post, Lee Speigel quotes Chase Brandon as saying, "It was not a damn weather balloon–it was what it was billed when people first reported it. It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don’t doubt for a second that the use of the word ‘remains’ and ‘cadavers’ was exactly what people were talking about."
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Wernher von Braun was one of the most important rocket developers and advocatess of space travel in the 20th century. An ex-Nazi scientist, he came to the US after the war as part of the "Paperclip" program, and worked for us at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico (should we still be afraid of these Nazis today?) It turns out he was there in July, 1947 when a UFO crashed in nearby Roswell.
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