How Important Is a Remote New Mexico Town to Human History?
For those who believe that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial spacecraft, a remote New Mexico ranch is hallowed ground. The believers say that in the summer of 1947, 75 miles outside Roswell, the holy grail of UFO-ology was found — concrete evidence proving the existence of alien life. The story begins when rancher Mack Brazel found some strange debris on his land. Maj. Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer at the Army air base in Roswell, went to investigate and was convinced that the debris was “not of this Earth.” Marcel put the strange wreckage in his car and drove it back to the base. But on the way, he stopped home and showed his wife and 11-year-old son, Jesse Jr., what he had found. Marcel died in 1986, but his son told ABC News in a recent interview that the memory of that day is still fresh in his mind. He said there were I-beams in the debris, “structural members with pinkish violet writing along the inside surface,” he said. “It was more like geometric symbols. It
