Maury Island incident

Harbor patrolman Harold Dahl and his associate Fred Crisman claimed that six doughnut-shaped craft hovered over Dahl's boat and one dropped slag-like debris that killed a dog and injured his son. Kenneth Arnold was brought in to investigate, and two Army Air Forces intelligence officers who took custody of fragments died when their B-25 crashed on the return flight, which fed later cover-up stories. The FBI file released through PURSUE records the investigators' finding that the story was false, Dahl's statement that he would call it a hoax if questioned, and a reporter calling it a complete fabrication. Edward Ruppelt later called it the dirtiest hoax in UFO history.

Hoax by Dahl and Crisman

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  The section's central content is the FBI's own investigation of the Maury Island incident (Tacoma, WA, June-August 1947): Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman's story of disc fragments falling on Dahl's boat, told to Kenneth Arnold and to two Army Air Forces intelligence officers who died in a B-25 crash hours after taking custody of the fragments. The file records that an Associated Press wireman found Dahl's own wife pushing him to admit 'the entire story was a plain fantasy' and that a Boise reporter independently called it 'a complete fabrication.' The section also carries the formal FBI-AAF correspondence on cooperation terms, including an Air Defense Command memo limiting the Bureau's role to discs found on the ground, and a Bureau memo dated near the end of the section recording that the FBI discontinued its flying-disc investigative activity effective immediately per Bureau Bulletin No. 42, referring all future reports to the Air Forces.

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