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This story originally aired on June 17, 2017. In the summer of 1947, off the coast of Maury Island in South Puget Sound, a man named Harold Dahl was out…

Other News Before UFOs In Roswell, There Was The Maury Island Incident KNKX Public Radio | By Jennifer Wing Published August 29, 2020 at 10:00 AM PDT Bluesky Threads Facebook Email Listen • 10:05 1 of 3 Some of the original government documents that Steve Edmiston and Scott Shaefer researched for their film. Courtesy of Steve Edmiston. 2 of 3 Some of the original government documents that Steve Edmiston and Scott Shaefer researched for their film. Courtesy of Steve Edmiston. 3 of 3 Some of the original government documents that Steve Edmiston and Scott Shaefer researched for their film. Courtesy of Steve Edmiston. This story originally aired on June 17, 2017. In the summer of 1947, off the coast of Maury Island in South Puget Sound, a man named Harold Dahl was out on his boat with his son, Christopher, their dog and two workers. Harold collected logs floating in the Sound and resold them to lumber mills. According to Dahl, on June 21 at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, six unidentified flying objects appeared in the sky above his boat. One of the saucers then exploded and a metal substance started raining down from the sky killing the family dog and burning Christopher’s arm. “They’re so frightened that they take this 50-foot boat and they run it up on the beach, so that they can get off the boat and hide in the cliffs that are on the beach there on Maury Island,” says Steve Edmiston. Steve made a short film about all of this with producing partner Scott Schaefer. It’s called "The Maury Island Incident." Tags Other News Sound Effect Bluesky Threads Facebook Email Jennifer Wing Jennifer Wing leads the KNKX News department. She is an award winning journalist whose work has aired on various outlets including NPR, the BBC, Marketplace and the Third Coast Podcast. Reach her at [email protected]. See stories by Jennifer Wing