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Rating: - Disappointing
I've read many good books about UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors by authors such as Stanton Friedman, Richard Dolan, Timothy Good, Jenny Randles, Jim Marrs and Raymond Fowler. I saw a UFO up close and personal in 1994, so I know there is something going on whether the U.S. government wants to admit it or not.

I believe the Roswell incident really happened. The best book I have ever read on the subject is "Witness to Roswell" by Tom Carey and Donald Schmitt. I like Jesse Marcel Jr., and in fact interviewed him for a newspaper article on Roswell in 1997. However, with all that said I found his book an extreme disappointment. It really does not offer much more than what we already know. I had hoped to learn a lot more about Jesse Sr. and the events surrounding the Roswell crash, but, outside of a very short synopsis of his military career, there is not much here. The tiny amount of information on Marcel Sr. included in this miniature volume could have easily been the subject of a three-page Internet article.

The problems with this book are many. I'll summarize them below:

A. It is way too short. The print is pretty large and the book is only 187 pages, and that includes a nine-page index and two more pages for the authors, which include Marcel Jr. and his wife, Linda.

B. There is too much repetition in this book and no substance. You find yourself reading too many fluff paragraphs that contain nothing interesting or intriguing. Very boring stuff.

C. The book is poorly written.

D. The book includes a chapter written by Linda Marcel that restates information Jesse Jr. wrote in previous chapters.

E. Some of Marcel Jr.'s statements are not clear. In one breath he makes it clear that he believes in UFOs because he saw wreckage from a crashed saucer, but in another statement he critisizes the alien abduction facet. He says people who get the most media coverage "belong to the 'tinfoil hats' brigade. These are the people who offer such bizarre tales of abduction and the like that it is nearly impossible for any rational person to take them seriously." Does Marcel Jr. mean that everyone who claims to be abducted by aliens are part of this brigade? I don't know, and neither will anybody else who reads this book. Is he talking about, among other famous cases, the Betty and Barney Hill abduction?

As someone who knows UFOs are real and has respect for Marcel Jr., I hate having to give his book a poor review. But somebody has to say it. "The Roswell Legacy" truly sucked.

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