The Maury Island UFO Incident: The Story behind the Air Force’s first military plane crash

168 Pages·2014·4.09 MB·English

by  Charlette LeFevre

The Maury Island UFO Incident
The Maury Island UFO Incident
The Story behind the Air Force’s First Plane
Crash.
The classic case with new discoveries and new photos on modern day
UFOlogy’s first UFO incident.
By Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson Northwest Museum of Legends and
Lore
1st Edition Published 2014
ISBN:
ISBN-13: 978-1493674961 ISBN-10: 149367496X
Copyright
The Maury Island UFO Incident © 2014, Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson Self published, Seattle, WA
Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore 501(c) 3 educational nonprofit
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Cover: Longview Daily News, Aug. 1, 1947 Illustrations by Charlette LeFevre
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the military’s first UFO Investigators who lost their
lives investigating and protecting evidence, Capt. William L. Davidson and 1st
Lt. Frank M. Brown and Paul Lantz - a true investigative reporter who asked the
tough
Capt.
Davidson
questions.
1st Lt. Brown Paul Lantz
“The report of the investigation of this incident, the Maury Island Mystery, was
one of the most detailed reports of the early UFO era…and the Maury Island
Mystery was never publicly solved”…
– Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of the U.S. Air Force Project Blue The Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects. 1956.
Acknowledgement and Thanks to:
Robert Davenport
Rod Dyke
Steve Edmiston
Elmer Frombach
James Greear and Dorene
Dr. Larry Haapanen
Scott Schaefer
William Shortley
Kenn Thomas
John White
and the many families and friends of the figures involved and those
that have supported the open case investigation.
Maury
Island, King County Library

Map of Maury Island
Capt. Davidson and Lt. Brown watched closely as the lights from the airfield
glinted off the rivets of the B-25 bomber in the night air as the locked metal box
scraped the bottom of the plane floor.
It was so heavy; it took two men to lift the box into the front. The light also
caught the eyes of the guards who had been protecting the plane - eyes that were
just a bit wider because they knew that whatever was being loaded was top
secret and likely held new technology, foreign and unexplained.
And that created fear. McChord Field was on edge.
All that night at the base, the guards were whispering about unusual craft
sightings that had happened in the weeks prior. They couldn’t help notice all the
newspapers were giving it front page coverage and the reporters were hounding
them for more information. Reports of UFOs included
pilot Kenneth Arnold seeing nine discs in
formation over nearby Mt. Rainier that had made International News.
Index
Forward..................................................... pg. 7
Forward by Dr. Larry Haapanen .......... pg. 8
The Incident............................................. pg. 9
Capt. William Davidson ......................... pg. 41
1st Lieut. Frank M Brown....................... pg. 44
Paul Lantz................................................. pg. 45
Kenneth Arnold ..................................... pg. 48
Harold Dahl ............................................ pg. 52
Fred Crisman .......................................... pg. 56
Raymond Palmer..................................... pg. 66
Ted Morello ............................................. pg. 69
Sgt .Elmer Taff ........................................ pg. 70
Sgt. Woodrow Mathews......................... pg. 71
Mysterious Informant ........................... pg. 71
Rediscovery of the Crash Site ............... pg. 74
The Slag ................................................... pg. 79
Newspaper Articles .............................. pg. 87
Theories .................................................... pg. 93
Still a Mystery........................................... pg. 101
Bibliography............................................. pg. 102
About the Authors.................................. pg. 106