Maury Island

Five panel intelligence dossier collage for the Washington State UFO UAP alien sightings location archive showing left Kenneth Arnold's 1947 cockpit view of nine crescent-shaped objects skipping in formation past Mount Rainier launching the modern UFO era, upper center-left Harold Dahl's patrol boat in Puget Sound under six donut-shaped objects dropping metallic slag in the Maury Island incident three days before Arnold, center a lone figure on a Glenwood Cascade Mountain ridge path dwarfed by the underside of a mile-long rectangular silverish craft with three ball probes descending in the early 1930s, upper center-right USS TIRU submarine officers watching a metallic disc rise from Dabob Bay in the 1966 naval USO encounter, and right a silent black triangle with three white corner lights and a red center pulse moving over Seattle's city lights at 2:45 AM in 2007

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United States Sightings

Sighting by Location: Washington UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: May 27, 2026 | Updated: May 27, 2026

Washington UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive Washington State holds a position in UFO|UAP research that no other U.S. state can claim: it is the...

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Single panel intelligence dossier evidence-board image for the August 1 1947 B-25 crash near Kelso Washington rendered in muted late-1940s color showing a forested hillside with a column of dark oily smoke rising from an off-frame crash site two parachutes drifting down against a pale overcast sky and the wing and tail of a 1947 twin-engine B-25 bomber visible in the trees with its left engine smoking, an aged-paper evidence inset in the lower corner showing six dark heavy slag-like fragments on a cloth tagged as the disc metal, and an upper-corner black-and-white newspaper inset reproducing the Idaho Daily Statesman August 3 1947 headline Metal Found in Disc Probe Reported on Plane, with HUD overlays marking the B-25 left-engine fire and Kelso crash, the two enlisted crew who bailed out and survived, the killed intelligence officers Captain William Davidson and Lieutenant Frank Brown, the six pieces of disc metal identified as Maury Island foundry slag from a hoax, the officially doubted sabotage rumor, the related-evidence classification, the Idaho Daily Statesman Dave Johnson source, and the Explained accident and hoax-material status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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Washington Sightings

1947: Metal Found in ‘Disc’ Probe Reported On Plane

Published: August 8, 2013 | Updated: August 24, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1947: Metal Found in ‘Disc’ Probe Reported On Plane Six pieces of heavy, heat-scarred metal — said...

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Four-panel dossier collage: Fred Johnson's Mount Adams compass sighting, the White Sands rocket scientists' disc, the Lake Mead Nevada formation, and the Malta little men submarine, all June 1947

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1947 Sightings

1947: June UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: May 25, 2013 | Updated: August 24, 2026

1947: June UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive June 1947 is the month everything changed. Kenneth Arnold’s June 24 sighting near Mount Rainier — already...

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Single panel intelligence dossier image for the 1947 Maury Island incident rendered in muted early-postwar color film style showing a small weathered wooden log-salvage boat on gray-green Puget Sound near Maury Island Washington with figures shielding themselves and a dog on the damaged deck, while several dull pewter doughnut or torus-shaped craft hang overhead with muted blue sky visible through their central holes and dark portholes around the inner rings, one craft tilting and shedding fluttering pale metal sheets and dull orange-hot slag onto the boat, and an inset lower-corner vignette of a black 1947 Buick with a featureless man in a black suit beside it, with HUD overlays marking the four-to-six alleged doughnut discs, the malfunction ejecting slag and light metal, the man-in-black legend origin, the removal of the invalid CE-III classification, the confessed problematic claimants Dahl and Crisman, the FBI and Ruppelt hoax assessment, the foundry-slag identification, and the Explained hoax status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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Washington Sightings

1947: Maury Island Incident

Published: December 26, 2012 | Updated: August 23, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP | ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT 1947: Maury Island Incident The Maury Island incident has everything: six doughnut-shaped craft over Puget Sound, molten...

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Maury Island

Sighting by Location: Washington UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

1947: Metal Found in ‘Disc’ Probe Reported On Plane

1947: June UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1947: Maury Island Incident

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