Jesse Marcel
publication date: Monday, July 7, 2025 (part of July 2025)
category: 
Paranormal
clue: His statement that it was not a weather balloon that he had investigated three decades earlier in New Mexico blew up like Bikini Atoll.
explanation: Marcel was an Air Force officer who participated in Operation Crossroads, the famous atom bomb tests in World War II. After the war, he was the first officer to investigate the "flying disc" incident at Roswell. It was his statement to a ufologist in 1978 that he believed the debris was extraterrestrial that ignited widespread interest in the crash as a potential alien contact. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and Stan Iwanchuk
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