You're listening to Part 2 of Unexplained Season 4 Episode 11, New Dawn Fades.

Down at the officers club on Roswell Army Airfield, 40-year-old Major Jesse Marcell had just

settled in to eat lunch when an unusual call came in from the Chavard's County Sheriff's

Department. Taking it in his office, he listened carefully as the man on the other end of

the line, Sheriff George Wilcox, proceeded to relay what he himself had just been told

by local rancher, Mac Brazel. That something appeared to have broken up over a section

of ranch land that he managed and that he had no idea what it was.

This all very well, Sheriff, said Marcell a little confused, but what's it got to do

with us? Well, said Wilcox, pausing for a moment. He thinks it might have something to

do with those flying discs we've all been hearing about.

In July 1947, Major Jesse Marcell was the base intelligence officer of the 509th Bombard

Group. Prior to this, he worked for Shell Oil as a specialist in constructing maps

from aerial photography before volunteering for the US Air Force shortly after the outbreak

of the Second World War. After excelling an intelligence officer training,

in 1943, Marcell was dispatched to the South Pacific as the Squadron Intelligence Officer

for US Air Force 5th Bombard Command, where he remained until the end of the war. Marcell's

service earned him a number of medals as well as the Bronze Star and eventually a promotion

to Major. Well respected by his colleagues, Marcell had little interest in science fiction

or speculation about little green people. However, there was good reason to be concerned

about just what exactly had come down on the ranch. Ever since Kenneth Arnold's apparent

strange sightings the previous month, the US military had been on high alert for unidentified

flying objects, the emphasis being on unidentified.

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