Guest Host Frank Warren with Jesse Marcel, Dennis Balthaser
Guest host Frank Warren (The UFO Chronicles) will interview two noted guests on Friday night’s The Joiner Report. During the first hour, Jesse Marcel, Jr. will relate his special relationship with his father, U.S. Army Air Force Major Jesse Marcel, and the first hand information related following the 1947 Roswell crash of an unidentified craft. Truth Seeker Dennis Balthaser will join Frank in the second hour to discuss his investigative research in ufology and upcoming lectures during the Roswell festival.
Jesse Marcel, Jr. said he waited a long time to tell his story—in his own words. Sixty years after the event, his book The Roswell Legacy was the result.
Marcel said his focus was to present the reader with a clearer picture of the man who was—and remains—at the center of the Roswell, New Mexico, controversy…his father.
Major Jesse Marcel was the head of intelligence at a Roswell Army airfield, and on July 6, 1947, witnessed the wreckage of an unidentified craft on a ranch in Chaves County, outside the Roswell area. In 1986, the Major’s final request to his son was to tell the truth about Roswell when the military no longer posed a threat to his family.
The deathbed promise was fulfilled with the publication of The Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer of the 1947 Crash Site. (Available at Amazon.com)
Marcel’s story is based on events related to the 11-year old by his father. Public speculation and controversy followed the alleged event. Marcel acknowledges that while his account carries within its own bias, “I realize that my duty to my father is to present him as the man he was, as accurately as possible…I feel I am the only living person truly qualified to wield the brush,” he said. “I hope I serve his memory well.”
Jesse Marcel, Sr. was inducted into the Roswell Hall of Fame on July 4, 2009.
Jesse Marcel, Jr. earned a degree in medicine in 1961. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1962 He completed specialty training in Otolaryngology at the Naval Hospital, San Diego, California. After retiring from the Navy in 1971, he entered private practice in Montana. Marcel joined the Montana Army National Guard in 1973, and on his 60th birthday in August 1996, retired from the military for the second time. In 2004, the Iraqi war required his being recalled to active duty as a flight surgeon for the 189th Attack Helicopter Battalion, flying 225 hours of combat. He was again discharged from active duty in December 2005 to the Ready Reserve, but has continued his service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Fort Harrison, Montana. (For additional bio and book information, see http://www.marceljr.com/)
Dennis Balthaser (http://www.truthseekeratroswell.com/) is an independent researcher, journalist and lecturer living in Roswell, New Mexico. His focus is the Roswell Incident of 1947; however, his research extends to investigations of Area 51, underground bases and ancient Egypt.
The researcher’s interest in the Roswell Incident expanded as he met with witnesses, traveled to the alleged incident sites, and visited with authors and historians on the subject. When he began his own investigations, they yielded material for informative lectures. His work has made him a popular guest on Internet and Radio talk shows, major television networks, and UFO symposiums regarding the Roswell Incident.
He has been featured in countless documentaries, and European, Japanese, and American productions including those for ABC, NBC, CNN, MTV, Sci-FI, TLC, Discover Channel, History Channel, Travel Channel, Kids Discovery Channel, Weekend Today Show, The Fox Network Ted Koppel’s “Night Line.”
Balthaser’s articles are now featured in UFO Magazine, a leading source of information in the UFO field. The magazine reports facts about sightings, abductions, current research, new technologies, and conspiracy.
Join Frank Warren and guests Jesse Marcel and Dennis Balthaser for two fast-paced hours on The Joiner Report, Friday, July 2, 9-11 p.m. ET, on the UFO Paranormal Radio Network, http://www.ufoparanormalradio.homestead.com/Main_Page_version_2.html
Check out Frank’s information on current ufology happenings at http://www.theufochronicles.com.
C. Scott Littleton Ph.D. – Eye Witness To ‘The Battle of Los Angeles’ Joins Frank Warren On The Joiner Report
The UFO Chronicles
3-24-10
Good friend and colleague Scotty Littleton joins me, Frank Warren, this coming Friday night on The Joiner Report. The topic is
The Battle of Los Angeles, February 25, 1942, to which Littleton was an eyewitness.
Professor C. Scott Littleton was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1933 and grew up in Hermosa Beach, CA. He attended Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, CA (1946-50), served in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea (1950-52), and attended El Camino College in Torrance, CA (1952-54), before enrolling at UCLA in 1955, where he received his B.A. (1957), M.A. (1962), and Ph.D. (1965). He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at UCLA in 1957.
An internationally recognized expert in comparative Indo-European mythology and folklore, as well as Japanese religion, Professor Littleton has published extensively on Japanese myth and religion, the origin and distribution of the Arthurian and Holy Grail legends, and the theories of the late French mythologist Georges Dumézil. He is the author of The New Comparative Mythology (3rd Edition, University of California Press, 1982) and, with Linda A. Malcor, co-author of From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail (Garland, 1994; a revised, paperback edition appeared in 2000). He is the editor of Eastern Wisdom (Henry Holt, 1996), a book surveying the major Asian religions, as well as the author of the chapter on Shinto, the indigenous religion of Japan, and has contributed chapters on Japanese mythology and religion to several other anthologies, including Roy Willis, ed., World Mythology: The Illustrated Guide (Simon & Schuster, 1993), Michael Coogan, ed., World Religion: The Illustrated Guide (Oxford University Press, 1998), and Raymond Scupin, ed., Religion and Culture: An Anthropological Focus (Prentice Hall, 2000). A semi-popular book, Shinto: Origins, Rituals, Festivals, Spirits, Sacred Places, was recently published by Oxford University Press (2002). He is the general editor of Mythology: The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth & Storytelling, which was recently published by Duncan Baird Publishers (July, 2002), as well as of Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology (Marshall-Cavendish, 2004).
Littleton has done extensive field work in a Tokyo neighborhood, focusing on its annual matsuri, or Shinto shrine festival, an account of which appeared in an article entitled “The Organization and Management of a Tokyo Shinto Shrine Festival” (Ethnology 25:195202, 1986). He has also studied contemporary Japanese popular culture, focusing on the teenage dancers and rock bands that perform on Sunday afternoons in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park (e.g., “Rituals of Rebellion among Contemporary Japanese Youth: The Outdoor Disco at Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park,” Religion 17:119131, 1987), and is currently researching the possibility that elements of the Arthurian tradition diffused to China and Japan as well as to Europe from its point of origin in the Trans-Caucasian steppes (e.g., “Yamato-takeru: An ‘Arthurian’ Hero in Japanese Tradition,” Asian Folklore Studies 54:259-274, 1995). His other research interests include nineteenth-century travel accounts—with Horace L. Hotchkiss, he is co-editor of The Diaries of Blakely Wilson: An American Traveler in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 1874-1876 (Mellen Press, 1998)—and the occult and the paranormal, especially the folkloric and mythological implications of the UFO phenomenon. He is especially interested in the extent to which rebel deities, such as Lucifer, Prometheus, and the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoátl, are reflections of ancient alien dissidents. He has also researched the so-called “Battle of Los Angeles,” to which he was an eyewitness, wherein a mysterious object, apparently impervious to 1400 or more anti-aircraft rounds, flew over the Los Angeles basin in the wee hours of February 25, 1942, and the possibility that this object may have been an alien craft rather than a stray Japanese observation plane or an errant barrage balloon. Littleton’s science fiction novel, Phase Two, which is concerned with UFOs, alien abductions, etc. was published in 2002 by The Invisible College Press.
His articles and reviews have appeared in American Anthropologist, Ethnology, Ethos, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Asian Studies, Monumenta Nipponica, Journal of Folklore Research, Western Folklore, Asian Folklore Studies, Religion, History of Religions, Natural History, Journal of the Classical Tradition, UFO Magazine, Cosmos, and The Journal of Indo-European Studies, where he also serves as mythology co-editor. In addition to essays on Indo-European mythology and Georges Dumézil in Mircea Eliade, et al. eds., The Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan, 1987, 2004) and Simon Glendinning, ed., The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), he has contributed a variety of articles to The Encyclopedia of Religion and War (Routledge, 2004) and The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004). He is also the author of the basic article on “Mythology” in The World Book Encyclopedia (Scott Fetzer, 1991), as well as over fifty short articles on mythological subjects for both The World Book Encyclopedia and the Academic American Encyclopedia.
He has received grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (twice), the American Philosophical Society, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and has served as a Visiting Fulbright Lecturer at The University of Tokyo and Waseda University (1980-81), Tokyo, Japan, and as a Senior Fulbright Researcher at Waseda University (1994). In 1991 he received The Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award, given annually to a distinguished member of the Occidental College faculty. He retired from full-time teaching at Occidental, after forty years, in May of 2002.
Show time: Friday, March 19, 9-11 p.m. CST
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Bruce Maccabee, Frances Barwood, and Mike Fortson join guest host Frank Warren on The Joiner Report
This month marks the 13th anniversary of what has erroneously been labeled The Phoenix Lights. The name in part stuck because the media feels the need to use “visual aids” at any opportunity; henceforth, the lights that were captured on video at around 10:00 p.m. were melded together with eyewitness accounts of a large craft(s) seen in the eight o’clock hour.
Unfortunately, while the video images were gaining traction, and became a media frenzy, the official reports (MUFON), which determined that the 10:00 p.m. videos were, in fact, flares, got thrown by the way-side.
It was MUFON investigator Richard Motzer who not only was the recipient of the flare videos early on, it was he that initially discovered the discrepancy between the witnesses to the 10:00 p.m. flare shots and the accounts in the eight o’clock hour. Point of fact is there were thousands of witnesses to the huge craft in the eight o’clock hour and only a handful at 10:00 p.m. (who happened to capture the lights [flares] on video).
This precipitated an investigation by Motzer, which would entail going to the locations of the videographers and triangulating all the pertinent videos. Stills were shot during the day at each relevant location, and he determined that the lights were above and beyond the “Estrellas,” in the airspace of the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range—not over South Mountain as initially thought. He then ascertained the time and days of military exercises, which included flare drops, and discovered that the days and times corresponded to previous video and or witness accounts of “orange lights” in that vicinity. His report was completed by mid May of ’97, just two months after the events of March 13th. This clearly explained why people on the valley floor didn’t see the flares, as it was impossible, unless one was at a higher elevation, like the videographers.
Not long after that report was made, the Air Force came clean and made an official statement admitting that the visiting Maryland Air National Guard (MANG) did eject their remaining flares before returning to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Regrettably, this has been a bone of contention and source of confusion ever since!
In part, because the media often interviewed eight o’clock witnesses, while showing the 10:00 p.m. flare videos, the former was adamant that “flares” is not what they witnessed—and this, of course, is correct. Separating, and being cognizant of the two (and other) events, is in fact the actual problem.
As time went by, there would be other investigations and scientific analyses confirming Motzer’s conclusions. One of the most in-depth analyses done, was performed by Dr. Bruce Maccabee, recently retired as an optical physicist from the Naval Surface Warfare Center and long time respected Ufologist.
Dr. Maccabee, along with direct eyewitness Mike Fortson and former Phoenix city council member Frances Emma Barwood will join Frank Warren as guest host for this Friday’s Joiner Report.
Together, they will sort out the events of March 13, 1997, which includes one of the most significant events in UFO history as well as the distraction caused by the flare footage.
Phoenix Lights Heroine and Former City Councilwoman, Frances E. Barwood Joins Guest Host Frank Warren on The Joiner Report
Although it has been a long time coming, Frances Barwood will finally share her personal experiences with what has become known as The Phoenix Lights and its aftermath in the form of two books: one book is on the objects that passed over Arizona on March 13, 1997, and the other on government cover-ups, which also relates to the first book in many areas.
Ufologists, Arizonians and eyewitnesses to the huge crafts that flew over the Arizona skies back in March of 1997 are all familiar with the name “Frances Emma Barwood.” Her name is synonymous with the events; her solitary voice pierced the silence of the restrained politically correct and demanded answers!!
Frances Barwood did not duck & run; she did not pass the buck; she did not ignore the situation, nor make light of it (as other government officials would later do) — she did what she was elected to do, i.e., represent her constituents and the best interests of the city of Phoenix.
The airspace of her city and state was repeatedly violated by a huge unidentified crafts, (and smaller ones), which maneuvered through the skies without impedance; people wanted to know what it was—she was the one to ask!
Born on January 13, 1944, in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, Frances moved from Williston, Vermont, to northeast Phoenix in 1980.
Frances was elected to serve her first term on the Phoenix City Council starting January 1992 and was re-elected to a second term January 1994. As Councilwoman, she represented District 2, which includes most of northeast Phoenix and is the city’s largest district. It encompasses over 130 square miles with a population at the time of over 160,000 and is more than 1/4 of the size of Phoenix.
Frances served on the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) Air Quality Advisory Committee, as well as the following Phoenix City Council Subcommittees: Environment and Natural Resources Subcommittee, Chair
Family, Youth and Education Subcommittee, member Ethics and Audit Subcommittee, member.
In January 1997, her peers elected Frances as the Vice-Mayor. Prior to being elected to the Phoenix City Council, she served as a member of the Greater Paradise Valley Chamber of Commerce and precinct and state committeeman for Legislative District 24 and then District 28. She has also served on the Squaw Peak Extension Advisory Committee, the Transportation Committee for the Community Council, and several other organizations. Then, the March 13, 1997, event occurred, and everything changed for this dedicated civic worker.
Today, Frances and her husband, Mike, have 3 adult children and a 26 year old grandson. They permanently reside in a small rural community south of Prescott, where Frances is again active in local organizations.
Please join Guest Host Frank Warren and Frances Barwood Friday evening, Dec. 4, 9-10 p.m. CST on the UFO Paranormal Radio Network, http://ufoparanormalradio.homestead.com/Main_Page_version_2.html Listeners may participate in the virtual chat room at www.paltalk.com.
(Article and photo contributed by Frank Warren, The UFO Chronicles)
