The Roswell Incident

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In July 1947 members of the US military reported finding unidentifiable debris in the desert of New Mexico. The only explanation seemed to be that it had come from outer space. Major Jesse Marcel was one of the men who came across the material. In 2010, his son, Jesse Marcel Junior talked to Ed Butler for Witness about the so-called 'Roswell Incident'.

Photo: Major Jesse Marcel with some of the debris in July 1947. Credit: Alamy

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0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds you're listening to the
1:00.4	witness podcast history as told by the people who were there. And today
1:05.2	we're taking you back 70 years to the so-called Roswell incident, perhaps the
1:10.2	most famous ever story of alien life from outer space. In 2010 Ed Butler spoke to someone
1:17.2	who remembered it well.
1:19.3	It's early July 1947. A strange light has been reported in the sky to the north of the 9
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