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  Maury Island incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Maury Island incident is said to be an early modern UFO encounter incident, which allegedly took place shortly after the sighting of the original flying saucers by Kenneth Arnold.
To some in the UFO community, the Maury Island Incident is still highly controversial, dismissed by many as a complete fabrication by the wildly imaginative and conspiracy-obsessed Crisman, while others think it may be among the most important encounters in modern times.
Thomas, Kenn, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maury_Island_Incident   (624 words)

  
 Maury Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maury Island is a former island (now an isthmus) in Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington.
It was the site of the Maury Island Incident, an unusual case of an alleged encounter with a UFO and the so-called Men in Black.
Maury Island, as well as Vashon Island, is led by the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maury_Island   (209 words)

  
 Preserve Our Islands: Issues - Sole Source Aquifer
Maury Island, like any island, relies on a natural balance to sustain life.
Island soils the acts as a large underground storage facility, working as a filter and holding tank -- ensuring continuous recharge of our aquifer throughout the year.
The proposed Glacier NW mine on Maury Island will certainly have many impacts, but one that has the potential for catastrophic results is the effect the operation might have on the island's only water source.
www.preserveourislands.org /POIWeb/Issue/Aquifer   (800 words)

  
 Maury Island
Along with the Maury Island incident was a crash of something in the Tabacco Root Mountains of Montana.
One of the things that seem to clench the Maury Island incident as a hoax was the debris themselves.
That on 21 Jun 47 was proceeding south of Maury Island in boat.
www.seanet.com /~johnco/maury.htm   (5149 words)

  
 Vashon / Maury Land Trust
Maury Island Conservation Initiative is the effort to preserve the 235 acre gravel mine site on the southeast shore of Maury Island.
Preserve Our Islands (www.preserveourislands.org) is the island group that is involved in litigation with Glacier Northwest, King County, and the State of Washington to prevent the issuance of mining permits.
Maury Island Aquatic Reserve is an initiative of the state of Washington Dept of Natural Resources to protect the waters and shoreline of southeast Maury Island and Quartermaster Harbor.
www.vashonlandtrust.org /page.cfm?ID=6   (275 words)

  
 UFO Area Maury Island Incident
Often dismissed as a hoax, the Maury Island case involved figures who later re-merged as part of Jim Garrison's 1968 investigation of the JFK assassination, and in between had a long, peculiar history.
The incident occurred somewhere in the vicinity of Maury Island.
Two weeks later, Tacoma reporter Paul Lance, who'd covered the story of the Maury Island sighting and the deaths of two Air Force officers Lt. Brown and Captain Davidson, died suddenly … and the cause of his death was not clear...
www.ufoarea.com /events_maury_island.html   (3814 words)

  
 The Maury Island Case: Deros, Flying Donuts, Radioactive Slag, and the JFK Assassination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Such is the case with the Maury Island affair, which occurred very early in the modern UFO era, on June 21, 1947.
He found the beach on Maury Island strewn with slag -- he estimated there was twenty tons of the stuff -- and while he was puzzling over this confirmation of Dahl's story, a round, donut-shaped object swooped out of the clouds.
He was heartily sick of the Maury Island affair, and felt personally responsible for involving Davidson and Brown in an investigation which, one way or another, caused their deaths.
www.parascope.com /nb/cautionarytales/mauryIsland.htm   (3276 words)

  
 Washington Free Press - #76 July/August 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Arsenic levels were found to be high in the Maury Island gravel pit during an impact survey conducted in 1999, when expansion was first proposed.
A lighted dock is bad for birds navigating routes over Maury Island, and the island is critical habitat for western grebes, whose populations are in decline.
With up to ten percent of the island's landmass being removed to a depth reaching within 15 feet of the Maury fresh water aquifer, local residents are concerned about the safety of their water source and the risk of soil contamination and polluted runoff from the mining site.
www.washingtonfreepress.org /76/minedOverMaury.shtml   (1354 words)

  
 Vashon & Maury Islands
Maury Island: [18474] This "island" is actually a five-mile long peninsula of Vashon Island, connected by a highway at a narrow neck of land.
Maury Island Marine Park: This new park designation, located south of the lighthouse, is awaiting development.
The largest park in the vicinity is Maury Island’s Dockton County Park.
www.boattravel.com /sample/01201vas.htm   (1268 words)

  
 disinformation | maury island ufo: fred crisman and covert infiltration of ufology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
maury island ufo: fred crisman and covert infiltration of ufology
Maury Island UFO: The Crissman Conspiracy (IllumiNet Press, 1999), is also available.
Crisman closes with a report that he went to the original Maury Island UFO site, and found it barren of plant growth and surrounded by signs that the area would be razed for the sake of an unnamed federal project.
www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id904/pg1   (1050 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Maury Island
Maury Island is a island in Washington State's Puget Sound connected Vashon Island by a isthmus built by the U.S Army Corps of Engineers that connects the two.
Prior to the cunstuction isthmus of the was a true island but was connected to Vashon only during low tide.
It was the site of the Maury Island Incident, an unusual case of an alleged encounter with a UFO.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maury-Island   (139 words)

  
 Washington State Department of Natural Resources:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
“Maury Island Aquatic Reserve was one of the first six to go through this evaluation and is the first to have a management plan in place to guide activities in the reserve.
Any decisions that DNR might make regarding the proposed gravel-loading dock proposed for the east shore of Maury Island would be contingent upon the project proponents securing federal, state and local permits for the facility.
The eastern shore of Maury Island is one of the longer, continuous natural beaches or drift cells in the region.
www.dnr.wa.gov /htdocs/adm/comm/nr04_109.htm   (669 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Local News: Maury Island gravel-mine expansion likely to be put on hold
Expansion of a controversial gravel-mine operation on Maury Island likely will be put off for at least another year after a judge yesterday indicated she would probably halt King County from issuing necessary permits.
The county was expected to grant Glacier Northwest a shoreline permit next week to replace a conveyor belt and build a dock on Maury Island that would be used to ferry millions of tons of gravel by barge to the mainland.
A group of island residents has complained that the project could potentially pollute their aquifer, harm salmon habitat and industrialize a rural neighborhood and shoreline now considered an aquatic reserve.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002157914_glacier22m.html   (563 words)

  
 Maury Island Barges
Maury Island Barges, on the other hand, offers much more drab coloration, especially on the barges.
The pilings that hold up the conveyor and dolphins that the barges used to moor against are still in place, although look as if they could use some work.
To be a little more specific, the site is located on the east side of Maury Island, about half way down (about 8 miles south of KVI Tower).
www.seaotter.com /marine/html/mauryisland.html   (1471 words)

  
 Another mess for Maury Island
MAURY ISLAND -- For more than 50 years, Patty Van Den Broek has been catching Dungeness crab off the beach where she lives on the island's south end.
On the island, emergency vehicles rushed to the worst-hit beaches.
One of them was Summerhurst, on Maury's east side, said John Troup, a member of the Dockton Water Board, which provides drinking water to the south end of the island.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/195387_maury15.html   (711 words)

  
 Vashon - Maury Island Water Resources Evaluation
The Vashon-Maury Island Water Resources Evaluation is a project designed to describe and assess the water resources of the island.
A water budget for the island was originally completed in 1983 when a Water Resources study was commissioned by the KC Department of Planning and Community Development.
Don't hesitate to contact the Vashon-Maury Island Basin Steward Ray Heller for more information on any or all issues related to the natural resources of the island.
dnr.metrokc.gov /wlr/WQ/vashon-island   (476 words)

  
 Cosmic Tribune.com: Extraterrestrial
Thomas recounted Crisman's central role in the Maury Island UFO encounter of June 21, 1947, which involved the recovery of slag-like material ejected from a crippled UFO off the coast of Washington.
The Maury Island story beings on June 21, 1947, three days before what is widely regarded as the event that launched the modern UFO era, pilot Kenneth Arnold's sightings of "flying saucers" over Mt. Ranier.
Dahl reported these events to Crisman, who is described as Dahl's "superior." Crisman went to Maury Island to take a look, and not only saw a great deal of both materials on the shore and recovered some for himself, but also claimed to have had his own sighting of a doughnut-shaped craft.
www.cosmictribune.com /ct/Extraterrestrial/Arch/2003/Hal/mck_12_02.html   (832 words)

  
 MysticalUniverse/Maury_Island_UFO_Case
Near Maury Island, "Crisman" found the beach was covered with an estimated 20 tons of slag.
However, before leaving, "Crisman" gave "Brown" and "Davidson" a carton, presumably containing fragments of the slag that was found from the round objects at Maury Island.
Two weeks later, "Paul Lance," a reporter who had covered the Maury Island sighting and the crash of the B-25, who had seemed to be in good health, died of meningitis.
www.mysticaluniverse.com /ufos_aliens/mauryisland/mauryisland.html   (884 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Maury Island Ufo: The Crisman Conspiracy: Books: Kenn Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I have received word that the remaining print run of Maury Island UFO was destroyed by the widow of the publisher, who wanted to deplete the stock and close the business.
With Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, Thomas has once again added new perspective to a tale that has been retold many times by UFO investigators, though the dangling threads have never quite been pieced together, and conclusively sewn shut.
Kenn has carefully researched previous "facts" about the Maury Island UFO incident and has, in some areas, corrected the historical mis-record; he has shed new light on the mysterious main characters, especially the chameleon-like Fred Lee Crisman.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1881532194?v=glance   (1349 words)

  
 Business Wire: Disclosure of Arsenic and Lead Contamination on Vashon, Maury Island Spurs Resident to File Class-Action ...
In light of a recent report reveling widespread arsenic and lead contamination of Vashon Island and Maury Island, two Maury Island residents today filed a proposed class action lawsuit demanding that the owners of the nearby smelter pay for long-term health monitoring and monetary damages for those affected.
The suit claims that the Asarco Inc, the owners of the smelter, knew for years that the plant was dumping a poisonous mix of arsenic, lead and cadmium and heavy metals on residents downwind of its Ruston plant.
If the court approves the class, the lawsuit would include residential property owners on Vashon or Maury islands who live within the `plume area' of the Asarco smelter, as well as any property owner in the area with soil contaminated with arsenic or lead.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_April_24/ai_61619996   (942 words)

  
 Point Robinson Lighthouse, Washington at Lighthousefriends.com
Before 1925, Maury Island was only accessible by boat or bridge at high tide.
Now, however, the island is easily reached from the larger Vashon Island, via a paved road on a narrow strip of land.
Located on the eastern most tip of Maury Island, which is attached to the eastern part of the larger Vashon Island.
www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=113   (598 words)

  
 Men in Black in the Northwest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thus, historically, the Northwest was the first documented encounter of "Men in Black" shortly after the "Maury Island UFO incident - the "Roswell of the Northwest" and just three days before Kenneth Arnolds sighting of nine discs seen over Mt. Rainier in 1947 and when media coined the term "flying saucer".
After that, Dahl vowed to never again tell the tale of the Maury Island UFO and, if asked, he would claim henceforth that it was a hoax.
See an artifact of slag found on Maury Island's beach (perhaps an actual piece dropped by the UFOs) at the Northwest UFO and Paranormal Museum Exhibit at the Psychic Spectrum in Federal Way.
www.oz.net /~clefevre/MIB.html   (492 words)

  
 The Maury Island UFO Mystery, UFO Casebook Files
The "Maury Island Mystery" began to unfold around July 22, 1947 when Kenneth Arnold received a letter from Raymond Palmer.
In the letter, Crisman claimed that he was a Harbor Patrolman at Tacoma, Washington and that he and an employee of his named Harold Dahl had seen several UFOs near Maury Island in Puget Sound.
On June 21, 1947, Dahl, his son, his dog, and two crewmen were on a boat near Maury Island when suddenly six large metallic objects appeared silently overhead.
www.ufocasebook.com /mauryisland1947.html   (965 words)

  
 Vashon Island Real Estate : Windermere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Vashon Island is in southern Puget Sound, just minutes by ferry from 3 metropolitan areas - Seattle, Tacoma, and Kitsap County.
Although many of Vashon's 11,200 residents work on the mainland, the Island offers a variety of employment opportunities.
Windermere's Vashon Island office has 12 full-time sales associates in an office that has been part of the community since 1948.
www.vashonisland.com   (159 words)

  
 Men In Black and the Maury Island Incident
Before his death Crisman changed the Maury Incident story to that of an American Plane dropping radioactive waste instead of a UFO dropping unknown substances.
To Read and review the entire story associated with the Maury Island Incident you are invited to see The Story of the Maury Island Incident.
The first noted appearance of the MIB was in 1947, at the scene of the Maury Island incident, where some debris was ejected from a disk, and subsequently recovered by officials, who loaded them on an Army bomber which crashed on takeoff.
www.think-aboutit.com /aliens/men_in_black_and_the_maury_islan.htm   (1465 words)

  
 Maury Island Ecological Economic Evaluation
The Ecological Economic Evaluation seeks to inventory Maury Island's ecological assets and estimate their economic value for use in decision-making, fostering sustainable business practices, and planning how the island's land is used.
The Ecological Economic Evaluation for Maury Island, Washington, was published in June, 2004.
From an ecological economics perspective, the goods and services provided by Maury Island landscapes are not only critical to the functioning of the Puget Sound ecological systems, but they also contribute significantly to the human welfare of Maury Island residents, King County's citizens, and others, both directly and indirectly as forms of natural capital.
dnr.metrokc.gov /wlr/watersheds/puget/maury-eco-evaluation.htm   (435 words)

  
 VMICC Committees
IT IS MOVED THAT the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council join with the other named organizations in the establishment and support of a joint Committee for the specific purposes of developing an island-wide disaster preparedness plan and a reasonable capability to implement that plan.
I move that all motions or resolutions passed by the Vashon Maury Island Community Council which require or result in forwarding the motions or resolutions to elected or appointed officials or the media, include the vote counts: for, against, abstain, and not appropriate.
The Vashon Maury Island Community Council hereby endorses the institution of such a plan, to be designed so as to reduce administrative overhead and assure a standard of health coverage for all Americans, and calls upon our leaders at the local, state, and national level to work toward its implementation.
www.vmicc.org /motions.html   (1595 words)

  
 Voice of Vashon - Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Vashon Park District was created by the Islanders of Vashon and Maury Island in 1983 to provide park and recreational opportunities to complement our island life style.
VYFS is the an agency on Vashon Island which provides counseling services to families, youth, children, couples and individuals.
Island news has been the heart and soul of our organization since we first started publishing on March 7, 1957.
www.voiceofvashon.org /community.sublist.cfm?orgID=125   (329 words)

  
 Before Roswell (Maury Island) - UFO Evidence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This is an overview of the Maury Island UFO crash incident.
In his Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects that was neither scientific nor a study, he discusses the Maury Island case in 115 words and uses the "H" word three times.
While the Maury Island episode occurred first, it was not investigated until three weeks after the Roswell crash.
www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1041.htm   (2251 words)

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