Maurey Island Incident
| Incident Name: | Maurey Island 'UFO' Incident |
|---|---|
| Incident Date: | 1947 |
| State/Provence: | Washington |
| City/Town : | Tacoma |
| Country : | USA |
| Documentary : | Original Story |
| Case Files : | Maurey Island Incident Case Files |
Maurey Island 'UFO' sighting incident in 1947 near Tacoma, Washington
In the summer of 1947, off the coast of Maury Island in South Puget Sound, a man named Harold A. Dahl was out on his boat with his son, Christopher, their dog and two workers. Harold collected logs floating in the Sound and resold them to lumber mills.
According to Dahl, on June 21 at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, six unidentified flying objects appeared in the sky above his boat. One of the saucers then exploded and a metal substance started raining down from the sky killing the family dog and burning Christopher’s arm.
“They’re so frightened that they take this 50-foot boat and they run it up on the beach, so that they can get off the boat and hide in the cliffs that are on the beach there on Maury Island,” says Steve Edmiston. Steve made a short film about all of this with producing partner Scott Schaefer. It’s called "The Maury Island Incident."
In 1947, Harold A. Dahl was out on Puget Sound with his son and his dog. History.com recounts that Dahl saw six strange aircraft overhead, one of which fell an estimated 1,500 feet out of the sky and into the water below. The metal debris hurt his son and killed his dog. Dahl told his supervisor at work, Fred Crisman, what had happened, and Crisman came and verified it for himself. Soon afterward, a man in a black suit supposedly came to Dahl and warned him not to speak of the incident again—it is said that this incident inspired the action movie Men in Black.
