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

the Swedish throne) and
the May 29 one at La Guardia were done the same way.
Now I
phoned the FBI on this – had to—and they told me it was probably
some nut, and not to broadcast it . Room 502
Smith talked a bit with Morello and hung up, then returned to 502.
Before he talked to Arnold, they went into the bathroom and turned
on all the taps as a precaution – a procedure now that did not seem at
all theatrical.
10:45 pm - Arnold and Smith went to bed.

Aug. 2, 1947
Saturday
    Arnold and Smith woke up to an early call from Maurice Roddy at the
Tribune in Chicago. The Tribune was preparing a story on Venture
Press including Maury Island and the B-25 crash, was looking to
interview General Spaatz or Brig. General Schramm. Smith explained
he couldn’t
comment
until
he received the military
questions.
When Smith ended the phone call, he informed Arnold that Venture
Press was a personal sideline of Ray Palmer with its latest claim to fame
of finding the “long-lost Jesse James.”
    Arnold started to worry and called his brother in Boise asking him to
visit their mother and explain that he might be in some news story but
not to worry.
Arnold next phoned a cable to his wife Doris that
everything was ok and he would come home soon. Smith heard the
wire being phoned in and asked perhaps as a cautionary procedure
where Western Union was located.
Arnold gave him the address of
South 10 th and Smith wrote it down.
Arnold ran out of cigarettes and walked down to the lobby to get some
more. He bought an Amazing Stories at the newsstand, which featured
“The Star Kings.”
The picket lines had started from the AF of L local and they were lined
up all along Broadway and Commerce St. with just a skeleton crew on
9 th . One staffer said “Sorry about this, sir.”
The desk man mentioned they are asking all guests who remain to
make their own beds.”
    Upon returning to the room and relaxing Smith and Arnold were
briefly surprised
when
they heard on
the radio
Fred Crisman
mentioned on the local Veteran’s program.
Smith called McChord but was informed to “Sit tight, we’ll get around
to you.”
    Noon – Call from Dahl asking to meet him up the street for lunch in
a café. Fred Crisman said he would meet them there and show them
the boat. By this time, Smith and Arnold were tired of waiting around
for the military to call and agreed to meet Dahl.
    The made their way past the picket lines to a café on St. Helens St.
Dahl and another man were sitting at a booth. Dahl introduced them
but not the man who eventually left after they finished their discussion.
When the man left, Crisman arrived and said, “All set?” After a small
meal of coffee and toast, Arnold and Smith would then visit Crisman’s
boat – the boat that Dahl supposedly was using during the UFO
sighting.
    Crisman drove all four down Commerce St, across a bridge and
turned left to an area a sign designated as “City Waterways.” They
parked on D Street and walked to the pier. The boat was much smaller
than what either Arnold or Smith expected; it looked like a tugboat.
Smith inspected the boat for the damage supposedly caused by the
flying saucer but was unimpressed by the evidence.
A section of the
rail was missing and the edges were sealed with layers of old paint. The
deck cabin roof was whole and Smith couldn’t believe tons of rocks fell
on the boat.
    Dahl ducked inside to talk to a man in coveralls who returned to
work perhaps on the engine after Dahl whispered something to him.
Arnold wrote that the “boat was gray in color, a very small type of
partially enclosed inboard fishing boat.
It in no way looked like a
harbor patrol boat that I had seen in pictures ” COS p. 62. Arnold and
Smith both felt this wasn’t a seaworthy boat and wasn’t necessarily
convinced of any evidence of repairs that was said to have occurred
due to damage from the slag. Crisman would offer to have them visit
his cabin where he believed his photos were but Arnold and