Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:26:48 -0500
From: James Easton 
Subject: UFO UpDate: Re: 'Alien Autopsy' film 'Danger' sign
To: UFO UpDates - Toronto 
Regarding...
>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:10:05 -0500
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto 
>From: Bob Shell 
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'Alien Autopsy' film 'Danger' sign
Bob wrote,
>Let's not forget in our haste to dismiss this that there is still the
>debris footage to deal with.
Bob,
The 'debris' footage arrived late on the scene and is of course
the only 'tie-in' with the 'Roswell' case.
Arguably that footage alone should be sufficient proof the entire
video 'evidence' is an accomplished hoax.
As we know, when Dr Jesse Marcel remembered seeing metallic
'I-beams' with embossed 'hieroglyphics', this became a foundation
for claims that the Roswell case concerned the crash of an ET
craft.
To recap on some of the issues, this is a relevant extract from
"The Day Before Roswell" article I wrote last year:
As noted, Dr Marcel was shown some of the wreckage by his late
father. The revived story having gathered momentum and attention,
on a number of occasions, Dr Marcel described metallic 'I-beams'
with symbols, recalled as part of that wreckage.
"There were I-beam fragments that had writing on the inside of
them", he claimed.
As for the symbols:
"I thought at first it looked like hieroglyphics, but it wasn't.
Hieroglyphics have animal forms birds, and cats, and things, but
this wasn't hieroglyphics. It resembled it. Geometric forms and
figures, solid forms, but not any kind of recognizable numbers or
letters or anything like that. More like squares, triangles,
circular ellipsoids, put together in various combinations to form
different types of occurrences. I do recall very strongly it was
a metallic, purplish color".
"And the hieroglyphics were embossed on that. So they stood out
from that".
Yet, in the 1995 UK Channel 4 'Incident at Roswell' documentary,
he seemed to have changed his mind.
The program featured the infamous 'alien autopsy' video, which
includes some brief film of debris supposedly from the crash site
and which shows I-beams with embossed symbols.
Asked for his comments on similarities with what he recalled, Dr
Marcel claimed the embossed symbols in the video footage were
different because, "the ones I saw were not raised above the
level of the beam".
Apparently, a complete contradiction.
Dennis Murphy, an acquaintance in the US, spoke to Miller
Johnson, who designed a 'replica' I-beam with Dr Marcel.
Dennis confirmed, "I asked Miller Johnson if Jesse Marcel Jr.
knew whether or not the symbols were embossed into the I-beam. He
stated that Jesse was not sure if they were or not".
Dr Marcel is also unsure of the exact shapes of the symbols. He
acknowledges that there is only one symbol, resembling a
truncated triangle with a circle on top, which he can recall with
any confidence.
Whilst Dr Marcel believed the members "sure didn't look like
balsa wood, unless it was sprayed with aluminium paint or
something like that", his father recalled that they did not look
metallic, but "something like balsa wood".
And although Marcel Jnr originally claimed the symbols were
"actually an embossed part of the metal itself", his father
stated, "they looked like they were painted on".
Another witness to the debris, Charles Schmid, described "some
material that looked like wood" and which "had some writing that
looked like flowers on just one side". He added, "it had pink
petals, centred like a flower".
Dr Marcel has also described the I-beam symbols as "pink and
purple", or "a violet-purple type color". His father concurs;
"those symbols were pink-purple, lavender was actually what it
was".
Loretta Proctor confirmed that Mac Brazel told her, "there was
more stuff there, like a tape that had some sort of figures on
it...there was also something he described as tape which had
printing on it...the colour of the printing was a kind of
purple".
And Brazel's daughter, Bessie Schreiber, told of how "some of the
metal-foil pieces had a sort of tape stuck to them, and when
these were held to the light they showed what looked like pastel
flowers or designs".
As the existence of the tape with purplish symbols isn't
disputed, it seems there is good reason to suspect that this tape
was also the source of the purplish symbols found on some parts
of the debris.
Significant corroboration for this is given in Kent Jeffrey's
recent article "Roswell - Anatomy of a Myth".
He states:
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