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Quoting Major Jesse Marcel, he is on record as confirming the debris consisted of "foil", "parchment", "rubber" and from a transcript of taped interview by Bob Pratt on the morning of December 8, 1979:Obviously, the Roswell aliens were not the standard alien.
Marcel: Oh. Yes - little members, small members, solid members that could not bend or break, but it didn't look like metal. It looked more like wood.
Pratt: How big?
Marcel: They varied in size. They were, as I can recall, perhaps three-eighths of an inch by one-quarter of an inch thick and just about all sizes. None of them were very long.
Pratt: How large was the biggest?
Marcel: I would say about three feet (long).
Pratt: How heavy?
Marcel: Weightless. You couldn't even tell you had it in your hands - just like you handle balsa wood.
(End of extract)
So, how did this all end up becoming a 'flying saucer', from outer space?
Perhaps because on the spot, Marcel himself decided, only a couple of weeks after 'flying saucers' first became snowballing media hysteria:
Pratt: What do you think this thing was?
Marcel: Well, as far as I know, or can surmise, it - I was pretty well acquainted with most of the things that were in the air at the time, not only from my own military aircraft but also in a lot of foreign countries, and I still believe it was nothing that came from earth. It came to earth but not from earth.
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What was Marcel's specifically related technical expertise, at that time:
Marcel: That’s Counter Intelligence (Corps) agents - See, my main job there was to clear the personnel through the Atomic Energy Commission to be stationed at that base, military personnel. I had five officers and about twenty enlisted typists working for me, with an office going like mint all the time. With (plus) those three CIC agents. They would do the investigating. Whenever we had to investigate somebody, I gave that job to them and they’d turn in their reports in to my office and we'd write the reports...
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Marcel self-determines has just made one of the greatest discoveries in history, so what happens next:
Pratt: Any jagged or broken ends or the like?
Marcel: No. As far as I can recall, they were clean. See, I had so little time to spend on this - I had other duties to perform. I brought the stuff over here, my CO saw it, my staff saw it and then the following day my CO told me to take it to Wright-Patterson.
Pratt: Why there?
Marcel: For analysis. They wanted to see what it was.
(End of extract)
Then our foil, sticks, parchment and rubber fragments are announced in a press release, as a recovered "flying disc'" which "landed" on a ranch and it was "stored" there by the rancher.
"Stored", subsequently being revealed as Brazel gathering up a bundle of 'flying disc' material and securing it under some desert 'brush" growth.
All only to be subsequently identified as meteorological fragments.
Marcel also, of course, stops off at home first, before advising his commanding officer that he has discovered not only proof of life elsewhere in the universe, it is tangible evidence of a potentially hostile, military threat to the entire United States.
Etc.
This is the foundation of 'Roswell', and a context of whether, years later, tales of aliens recovered from a spacecraft, caskets et al, is realistically tenable.