10 Most Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Prove Aliens Have Visited Earth

6. The Maury Island Incident

Maury Island is a small island in Puget Sound, near Tacoma, Washington. On June 21st 1947, three days before the Kenneth Arnold incident, seaman Harold A. Dahl witnessed several objects flying over Maury island. One of the objects he witnessed exploded, raining down fragments below. It was a bright day, the sea was calm, and the skies were blue and crystal clear. Dahl was with his son Charles, an unnamed buddy, and Dahl's dog. They were scavenging for logs (because apparently he really can't cook and his son really needs the fibre, or something?) His dog began to bark, and upon looking out, they witnessed four or five doughnut shaped objects flying over the area. Dahl stated in his FBI report that one of the objects seemed to be malfunctioning and that another flying disc approached the first. The second quickly retreated and as it did so, the first disc began to eject metallic chunks. The debris rained down on his boat, smashing his windshield, shattering a light fixture and in a sad twist, one of the larger chunks killed his dog. His son is said to have sustained minor injuries as well. Dahl took photos of the entire event. He also recovered some type of slag ejected from the malfunctioning craft. Samples of sheets of lightweight, white, metal were also recovered by Dahl and his crew. He claimed they fluttered like "newspapers" out from the inner ring of the troubled UFO. The Dahl family and his friend went home, to Tacoma, never speaking of what had occurred. The next morning, a visitor, wearing a black suit and driving a 1947 Buick, showed up to his house. The man invited Dahl out for breakfast in a local diner and once there, he conducted an interview. Dahl claims the man retold the events on the boat as if he had been there, although Dahl himself hadn't related the story publicly at that point. The man told Dahl exactly what Dahl had seen without Dahl ever being asked a single thing. Then, Dahl claims, the man told him that, should he speak of what he'd seen to anybody, great harm would come to him and his family. The next day Dahl, who one can only assume "doesn't take sh*t from nobody" told everything that had happened to him to a co-worker by the name of Fred Crisman. At this point I'm going to go on a little tangent here. Fred Crisman is a teacher, author and all around peace disturber who has since the 1940's been involved in several conspiracies. In fact, Fred Crisman was once linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, early reports placed Crisman on the grassy knoll at the time of the assassination. Conspiracy theorists would later claim this was an attempt to tarnish his name and take away his credibility when speaking of various other government cover ups, of which the Maury Island incident is one... chew on that, non-believer. The reason Dahl told Crisman what happened is that Crisman was co-owner of the boat Dahl had been on. He and Dahl were both involved in the "business" of scavenging for logs to sell as raw lumber. A business venture which is, in this author's opinion, some pretty stupid and shady shit... And so when Crisman asked Dahl to explain the damage to the boat, Dahl, unable to come up with a good lie, broke down and told the truth. Never shying away from a good mystery, Crisman went out to investigate. He found strange sheets of metal strewed out along the beach. According to FBI reports, Crisman collected some samples and sent them out to a friend at the University of Chicago for analysis. Upon being unable to identify the material, this unnamed friend sent the samples to Ray Palmer, science fiction writer and editor of Amazing Science Fiction. That's when our story gets a little strange. That's right. Now is where it gets strange, because everything that came before the following is just business as usual. While the samples were being passed around Chicago for analysis, leaving a trail of confused scientists in their wake, Ray Palmer, writer extraordinaire, decided to contact none other than Idaho pilot, Kenneth Arnold, a now reputable source on the matter, desperate to prove what he had witnessed a few weeks prior was real. Once in Tacoma, Kenneth Arnold, Fred Crisman, and Harold Dahl, met with Captain William L. Davidson and Lieutenant Frank M. Brown of Army A-2 Intelligence, at the Winthrop Hotel. They met and discussed the events in detail over several days. The two intelligence officers decided to return to their base in California. Before they left, Crisman, who had retrieved some of the strange metallic rock formation spat out by the malfunctioning ship, gave it to the investigators to take back to California for further analysis. The plane carrying the two investigators, and the strange metal, mysteriously crashed near Kelso, Washington, shortly after leaving Tacoma, killing both officers. The material they carried was allegedly never found and claims they carried secret cargo with them was denied up until 2007... Crisman told Arnold of the crash. The three men, Dahl, Crisman and Arnold, once again met at the Winthrop Hotel. Arnold brought another friend with him. The Freedom of Information copy of the FBI report refers to this man as a "Mr. Smith of Seattle" I shit you not. That is the name he is given in the official FBI reports release... During this time Paul Lance of the Tacoma Times contacted Arnold at the hotel. They spoke, and Lance informed Arnold that much of the information they'd been discussing had somehow been leaked to the press. The rest of their conversation remains unknown. The men began feeling the heat. Dahl was asked to produce the photographs he had taken of the UFO's. Once back at his car he claimed the photos had been stolen from his glove compartment. Feeling things were getting alarmingly unverifiable the crew decided to go back to the site of the crash and gather more evidence. The boat failed to start. When Smith asked Dahl and Crisman where the fragments had damaged the boat, in an effort to gather what little evidence they could, all were shocked to see repairs had been made to all the effected portions of the boat. Soon after Dahl just disappeared. He was never seen again. FBI reports mention his son, allegedly injured by the slag from the malfunctioning UFO, ran away from home to Montana (for no explained reason). Crisman, a World War II veteran, was suddenly and inexplicably called back into service. He was sent to Alaska just a few days later. Incidentally, a UFO was spotted northwest of Bethel, Alaska on August 4, just a few days prior, by Captain Jack Peck and copilot Vince Daly. Some time after that, Crisman was sent to Greenland. Another interesting little anecdote is that the Crisman was stationed at Thule Air Force Base. Thule is a Greenland Air Force Base which figures prominently in Milton William Cooper's conspiracy book, Behold a Pale Horse as a Majestic 12 and Operation Majority, control terminus. Behold a Pale Horse is a conspiracy book described as "the manifesto of the militia movement." Paul Gilroy describes the book as "an elaborate conspiracy theory that encompasses the Kennedy assassination, the doings of the secret world government, the coming ice age, and a variety of other covert activities associated with the Illuminati's declaration of war upon the people of America". It is also said to be, "among the most complex superconspiracy theories" and the most influential. Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke states that it is, a "chaotic farrago of conspiracy myths interspersed with reprints of executive laws, official papers, reports and other extraneous materials designed to show the looming prospect of a world government imposed on the American people against their wishes and in flagrant contempt of the Constitution." I think it's in everybody's interest to note that people rarely claim it's untrue, just extremely intense and definitely paranoid. The samples of material both Arnold and sci-fi writer Palmer had received, also went missing. After the disappearance of the last shred of evidence, Ted Morello of the United Press told Arnold, "You're involved in something that is beyond our power here to find out anything about... get out of this town until whatever it is blows over." Paul Lance, the reporter from the Tacoma Times, who Arnold had been in close conversation with during the entire ordeal, died within two weeks of the events of undetermined causes. The Roswell UFO incident occurred 12 days after Dahl first sighted the malfunctioning UFO above his boat, over a calm sea, and beneath the clear blue skies, off Maury Island... For those of you keeping score, that last story involved missing evidence, small town hicks, men in black, UFO's, disappearances, the FBI and the military. I'd call that a double hat trick.