The Maury Island Fragments

The Maury Island Fragments

In August 1947 the FBI and the Fourth Air Force looked into a story that Harold A. Dahl had seen flying discs near Maury Island, in Puget Sound, and that one of them had showered his boat with debris. The story reached the file second-hand, first in a publisher’s letter of 22 July, and its versions disagree on the date, the number of objects and who was aboard. Two Army Air Forces intelligence officers who heard it in a Tacoma hotel on 31 July, and were handed a box of the supposed fragments, were killed hours later when their B-25 crashed near Kelso; the Army and the FBI found no sabotage. On 7 August Dahl and Fred L. Crisman signed a statement for the FBI calling the material “strange rock formations from a gravel pit on Maury Island”, and an Army Air Forces officer compared it with slag at a smelter. No one who said they had seen the discs ever signed an account of them.

Source document: Original public reference