Ray Palmer

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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1947: Maury Island Incident

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