Sightings1947

Maury Island incident (hoax)

When: Jun 1947
Where: Maury Island, WA
Sources: 1 public source

Maury Island in Puget Sound, scene of the 1947 hoax claims Mark Yasuda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two Tacoma men claimed six doughnut-shaped objects appeared over Puget Sound and one dropped slag-like debris. Two Army Air Forces intelligence officers who looked into it died when their B-25 crashed on the way back. Ruppelt said the official report concluded the men admitted it was a hoax.

Sources

FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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