Let me start out by saying that I have done a lot of research on the Roswell incident and have held the opinion, for some time, that it was indeed a crashed UFO and not a weather balloon. That being said, this book excellently describes how the crash not only deeply affected one man, but his entire family. The debris handled in the Marcel home one night in 1947 was not of this Earth, plain and simple. I can do nothing more than recommend this book to anyone, skeptic or believer, of the Roswell incident. Jesse Marcel Jr. does an amazing job of describing the debris, the cover-up and the life changing events that it caused.

A powerful book, no doubt.
Despite all the documentation and facts in this book, Roswell remains a big question mark. It appears to me that ufologists are not doing the right thing. So many of them, so many books, so many appearences on TV shows, yet not even one single physical evidence. This is what this well-thought book is suffering from!

FIRST OFF LET ME SAY GREAT BOOK. MARCEL JR. SEEMS LIKE A CREDIBLE GUY JUST LIKE HIS FATHER. THIS IS NOT YOU'RE TYPICAL ROSWELL ACCOUNT. YES THE AUTHOR GIVES YOU A ROUND DOWN ON HIS VERSION OF ROSWELL AND WHAT HE EXPERINCED. BUT THE BOOK DEALS MORE ABOUT THE MARCEL FAMILY BEFORE AND AFTER ROSWELL. YOU GET SOME INSIGHT ON WHO THEIR WERE AND ARE. HE TALKS ABOUT THE EFFECTS ROSWELL HAD ON HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND NOW HIS KIDS AS WELL. HE EXPLANS WHAT A MOGUL BALLON IS AND WHY THAT EXPLANATION JUST DOESN'T HOLD UP. HE SHOWS THE GOVERMENT IS FULL OF IT. HE SHOWS THAT THEY ARE INDEED HIDING SOMETHING FROM THE PUBLIC. BUT DID A FLYING SAUCER REALLY CRASH IN NEW MEXICO. WE CAN'T BE SURE. BUT SOMETHING STRANGE WAS FOUND IN THE DESERT, SOMETHING STRANGE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOME OF THE MARCELS. SOMETHING THE AUTHOR WOULD DESCRIBE AS 'UNEARTHLY'.

The Book was interesting in most places and was repetitive by way of emphasis in some chapters. It needed the other book ("Day after Roswell") to be read first as a background to the story. There still remains the US govt's final view of the subject which essentially remains a mystery in the clouds of "its too long ago to worry about".
Essentially it is the story of the author's father and has some real though incomplete experiences nagging at the author seeking to express his unanimous belief in his fathers experience with the crashed UFO remnants.

The Roswell Legacy was a welcomed publication. It was nice to see a book by Major Marcel's son finally on the market. Though it did deal with family matters and family quite a bit, I found that it dealt with many of the personal problems with family members including the fact that both Major Marcel and his wife as Jesse states in the book - became alcoholics. He speaks also of the effect that the Roswell Incident and its many years of secrecy had on his entire family including his own children. He states that even to this day due to the Roswell Incident there are riffs in his family. My reading about the tragic family situations both with his own family and Major Marcel's touched my heart and I thought, "How sad this has happened to them." I immediately decided I would attempt to reach Jesse by phone and invite him for an interview on my Blog Talk Radio show. I wanted to help him reach out, tell his story, and also assist in vindicating his Father in some way. I was able to contact him and he agreed to do the interview on BlogTalk Radio along with his friend Stanton T. Friedman. I asked him if there was anything in his book he did not want to discuss. His repy was, "I don't think so." However, in the course of the interview, I found this not to be the case. There were several questions mentioned in the book that he chose either not to comment upon or just skirted the question completely. I let all that pass. For a few days after the show, I thought about 'Why did he answer the questions the way he did or not at all?, when his answers did not agree with the way they had been written in the book. I wound up doing a second show on BlogTalk addressing these concerns and reading from The Roswell Legacy the answers that should have been easy for him to give. I finally took both shows totally out of my archive section. If you would like to hear these shows, you can at BTR, Saturday, March 29th, 2008, 5 pm ET - The Charn Parker Show or download them from the archives anytime after the broadcast. I do think this was a good book, however, I question now the validity of what was written.