It’s a story you won’t want to miss. The story goes like this:
“On June 21st, 1947, a Tacoma man named Harold Dahl brought his son, two workers, and the family dog aboard his vessel to salvage logs from the waters of Puget Sound. The North Queen and her passengers traveled three miles north until they reached the shores of Maury Island—right across the water from Edmiston’s community. There, Dahl alleged that six flying discs appeared overhead. One seemed to be malfunctioning, flying lower than its companions, eventually spewing molten material down on the boat. The dog was so badly burned that it died, and Dahl’s son’s arm was singed to the point where he was taken to the hospital.
The morning after—June 22nd, 1947—a man dressed in a black suit knocked on Dahl’s door. He brought Dahl to a diner in Tacoma, where Dahl enumerated, detail by detail, the events of the day before. The man did what is considered typical of the Men in Black: he issued a warning that Dahl had better not tell anyone about what had happened.
Those two days comprise what has since been labeled The Maury Island Incident, but it was far from an isolated event. It was the same year—1947—of “The Summer of Saucers.” It saw Ken Arnold’s famous report of nine flying discs near Mt. Rainier—three days after Dahl’s Maury Island sighting, as well as an apparent UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, that was reported by the U.S. Army Air Forces two weeks later. In the midst of this extraterrestrial buzz, Harold Dahl and his Maury Island Incident were experiencing inconceivable publicity”.
See you there for this stellar presentation from Steve Edminston offered through a grant from the Humanities of Washington State and Maury Island’s connection.
