Have People Been Killed For What They Knew About UFOs?

That’s a highly controversial title for this article
(https://bit.ly/3LcVmcW). It becomes even more controversial
if the answer to the title is “Yes.” Certainly, there are more than
a few claims that ufologists have been wiped out for what they
knew. Indeed, I wrote about such things in my Assassinations
book and in my Diary of Secrets book that addresses the claims
Marilyn Monroe might have lost her life because of what she knew
about UFOs and aliens. Moving on, one of the strangest stories
revolves around (A) a man named Fred Crisman and (B) a place
called Maury Island. June 21, 1947 was the date of one of the most
mysterious and widely-debated incidents in UFO lore. A man named
Harold Dahl, his young son, and several men were shocked and
amazed by the sight of a veritable squadron of circular UFOs, with
holes around the sides, flying over the waters of Maury Island,
Puget Sound, Washington State. Five of the craft seemed to be
moving in a smooth fashion at roughly 2,000-feet. That certainly
couldn’t be said of one of them: it was clearly, and dangerously,
out of control.
That was made even more obvious when that particular craft suddenly
plummeted to a height of around barely 700 feet. This was not a good
sign. It was practically an omen. The rest of the mysterious aerial
vehicles skillfully maneuvered out of the way, except for just one
craft: it proceeded to “touch” the malfunctioning one, as things
were described at the time. That didn’t seem to help. The craft then
started to “spew forth” a huge amount of material – and showered
down a mass of weird debris into the water. Some of it was an
extremely thin, light metal. Other material, black in color, was
boiling hot – something that was made clear when the wreckage
hit the water and instantly caused a huge amount of steam to
violently billow and bubble all around. Very unfortunately, the
Dahl’s family dog was killed by some of the material as it slammed
not just into the water, but onto the family’s boat, also.
A shocked Dahl quickly contacted his boss and friend, Fred Crisman;
he was a man who had links to U.S. intelligence, and who wasted no
time in gathering up as much of the material as possible. With
Crisman and his son helping too, it wasn’t long before a sizeable
amount of the material was on the boat and in their collective hands.
Seeing the potential dollar-value in the story, Crisman contacted
Ray Palmer. He was the publisher of Amazing Stories magazine.
Crisman wondered if he, Palmer, might be interested in having an
article written on what had happened – something that led a number
of UFO researchers to wonder if Crisman had conjured up an
elaborate hoax. Certain events that continued to grow quickly
suggested it wasn’t a fabrication. First and foremost, the U.S.
military was soon on the scene to scoop up the material.
Specifically, the two involved were Captain William Lee Davidson
and First Lieutenant Frank Mercer Brown. The pair was acting
on the orders of General Nathan Twining, a key figure in the U.S.
military’s early investigations into Flying Saucers. Those orders
were never fulfilled. How can you fulfill orders when you’re dead?
Brown and Davidson flew into the area – from Hamilton Field,
California – with not a problem in sight, at all. They collected as
much of that weird debris as they could and took to the skies. On
the way back, however, the absolute unthinkable happened. Their
planned destination was Wright Field, Ohio (today, known as
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). A team was to be ready and
waiting at the other end to take hold of that mass of curious
material. The two hadn’t been in the skies for long, however, when
malfunctions kicked in. Severe malfunctions. To the extent that the
plane plummeted to the ground, killing them in a fiery nightmare.
The wreckage mysteriously vanished. All we have left are a few old,
black-and-white photos taken at the time and held by the FBI.
There is a bizarre afterword, I must stress. And what an afterword it
is. While Harold Dahl largely fell into obscurity afterwards, the
same most definitely cannot be said for Fred Crisman. He became
a prominent figure within the Kennedy assassination. Indeed, in
1968, when District Attorney Jim Garrison was at the height of his
investigation of JFK’s death, Crisman was subpoenaed by Garrison,
himself. Garrison had it in his mind that Crisman wasn’t just a
minor figure in the death of the president. For Garrison, Crisman
was quite possibly one of the assassins at Dealey Plaza, Dallas on
November 22, 1963. Garrison was sure Crisman was poised and
ready to go on the fateful day, but in the guise of one of three
“hoboes” – as they were described – seen lurking around the Grassy
Knoll when JFK was shot. Was all of this just a catalog of
unconnected weird situations? Was there something that deliberately
placed Crisman in the heart of President Kennedy’s assassination?
And, if so, was all this linked to real UFOs? Or, was the Maury
Island incident – that began it all – a bad joke turned absolutely
tragic? Just like so many other cases involving ufologists who might
have lost their lives because of UFOs, the Maury Island controversy
can go either way.